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Police warn about new deadly version of drug ecstasy
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Date: Fri. Jan. 13 2012 6:41 AM ET
Ecstasy - often called the love drug - has long been a favourite of hard partiers.
It's cheap and easy to obtain - but police and health officials are once again warning that it can also kill.
A synthetic chemical called PMMA is now linked to five recent drug deaths in Calgary and at least one fatal overdose in the Vancouver area.
Officials think the PMMA was in ecstasy that all of the victims are to believed to have taken.
B.C.'s health officer Dr. Perry Kendall says it takes longer for ecstasy containing PMMA to take effect, which can prompt some people to take more, resulting in an overdose.
Last year alone 16 people died in B.C. after taking ecstasy.
The RCMP say the Vancouver area is known to be a manufacturing hub for drugs like ecstasy.
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