What is pops a molly

Costing anywhere from 20 to 50 dollars a dose, the infamous Molly has become a hit among 16 to 25 year olds, particularly in clubs and music festivals DrugFree. This is because molly fills the brain with the neurotransmitters serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine , causing you to become elate and full of energy.

The answer no drug is safe, and molly is no exception. One side effect is the inability to regulate body temperature, which in extreme cases can cause liver, kidney, or cardiovascular failure. But prescription drugs can cause an issue as well. If you're taking an antidepressant, like a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, and you also take Molly, which is causing this release of serotonin, then you can get serotonin syndrome, and again it can be very detrimental to your health.

So these are things that you simply must understand about taking this Molly drug, which is all over the pop culture. It seems to be really cool, and really relevant right now.

So what do you do if someone is having negative effects of Molly? Well, you need to call , you need to activate EMS. If the person is having that hyperthermia, that fever, they need to be cooled down. If they're dehydrated, and if they have enough mental capacity to drink water, they need to drink water. But if they've been drinking too much water of course that calling will help them to get evaluated, so that this hyponatremia, or cerebral edema, does not ensue.

Basically, once they get to the ER or the place of evaluation they'll have their blood sugar checked. There'll be a tox screen done and an EKG will be done.

The evaluations will be done, but the key is to know that if a person is having negative effects from Molly if they're "tripping" or whatever you want to call it, it is an emergency, and must be activated. Now here's the problem: if Molly is being done at a club, or a place where other people are high or intoxicated, if you're doing that then you are now depending on people with altered mental status to save your life.

So this is something to think about if you're going to be participating in street drugs. Just be real smart, just think about it. If you start to have a problem, a life-threatening problem from Molly, are you really going to trust the other people around you, who are also likely high or drunk? I'm not just talking to young people about Molly, because there are a lot of people who are very grown who like to do Molly.

Just remember this grown people: if you are older, and you already have high blood pressure, or if you have kidney disease, then you are just really, really magnifying your risk of these illnesses, given that both of them can be side effects from the Molly. So be careful. And as for young people, oh gosh. Young folks, especially teenagers and young adults, it's tricky to have the talk about drugs with young people.

And I can't say that I have mastered it, because I've not. I tried to have a talk with my daughter, kind of, she just turned And last year when I took her to the nail parlor one time, I normally let her just pick her own nail colors, and she will pick things like pastels and aqua, or bright colors, really feminine colors.

So I just wasn't paying attention. When she finished getting her nails done I looked over and her fingernails were black. I looked south of her ankles and her toenails were black. This was a change, and so I did what any logical, concerned parent would do, and right there in the middle of the crowded nail shop I said, "Are you on drugs? And I'm being a little facetious, but in all honesty, it's tricky to have the talk about drugs with young people, and this is why.

Young people, I'm now talking to you. Teenagers and young adults think that they are the best that ever did it. They don't understand that parents, that mothers and fathers were young also, and let me tell you, your mamas and your daddies have lived. And so you should really listen to your parents because there's some wisdom. If you are, for example, out at a party, and you promised your parents that there would be no drugs and no alcohol, but say there really are drugs and alcohol, and you've been drinking or you've been partaking in Molly or some other substance; don't be so scared to call your parents that you drive home under the influence, or that you actually get in the car with someone else who's under the influence.

Some of you are so scared that your mamas are going to kill you that you do things that might make you kill yourselves. So young people, talk to your parents. As for these grown-ups and parents, don't be so judgemental and so holier than though that your children don't feel comfortable talking to you about drugs or about alcohol.

Sure, tell them that you don't want them to drink, tell them that you don't want them to do drugs. And explain why. Several teens in Minnesota had died or ended up in the hospital after taking these drugs. It's unclear at this time what other substances might have been in the hits of molly the Wesleyan students took over the weekend, but police have some evidence that it wasn't pure.

Molly, ecstasy, MDMA—whatever you want to call it—has been around a long time. In the s, MDMA was actually used in psychotherapy. Big caveat: its therapeutic value hadn't really been tested and its use never had approval from the U. Food and Drug Administration, which oversees medications.

Now, the drug has made a comeback at colleges, in part because there's misconception among young people that the drug is safe. That's clearly not the case, as the hospitalizations of the 12 Wesleyan students have shown. Nora Volkow also warns :. MDMA is not new to the scientific community, as many laboratories began investigating this drug in the s, and the picture emerging from their efforts is of a drug that is far from benign.

For example, MDMA can cause a dangerous increase in body temperature that can lead to kidney failure. MDMA can also increase heart rate, blood pressure, and heart wall stress.

Animal studies show that MDMA can damage specific neurons in the brain. In humans, the research is not conclusive at this time; however, a number of studies show that long-term, heavy MDMA users suffer cognitive deficits, including problems with memory. Last question: is there any special lingo I should use to talk about molly with the ravers in my life? Glad you asked. Typically, people talk about "popping molly" rather than "doing molly" or "taking molly" — mostly because "pop molly" was a lyric in a Jay-Z song.

But be careful: sticklers might point out that "popping" usually refers to taking pills. If your friend's molly is in powdered form which it often is , you might encourage him or her to stick with something more scientifically accurate, like, "I am going to a rave tonight, and I plan on placing 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine into my bloodstream. Daniela Hernandez is a senior writer at Fusion.