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• n  a stimulant drug that is chemically related to mescaline and amphetamine and is used illicitly for its euphoric and hallucinogenic effects; it was formerly used in psychotherapy but in 1985 it was declared illegal in the United States

• The FDA has sanctioned a study of methylenedioxymethamphetamine, better known as MDMA, or ecstasy, as a possible treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
• The correct spelling is methylenedioxymethamphetamine, not ) methylenedioxyethamphetamine as the law had it.
• Though often cut with other drugs, ecstasy pills are at least intended to be a substance called MDMA (and known only to chemists as methylenedioxymethamphetamine).

• MDMA

News & Articles

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• Dangers of powder drug 'Molly'
  In one week, three people have died, two of them New Englanders -- and the deaths are believed to have been related to the use of MDMA, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, also known as "Molly."
  Sept. 3, 2013 - WPRI Providence