Drugs of Abuse Testing

Amphetamine-Type Stimulants

September 2009

Now in the amphetamine-type stimulants category, amphetamine being the prototype of course, but methamphetamine; MDMA, which is ecstasy; and MDA, which is methylenedioxyamphetamine; also fall into the category of amphetamine-type stimulants. Now all of these have the potential to be drugs that would be used as individual drugs. However, it's also important to remember that methamphetamine is demethylated to amphetamine, so another example of an active metabolite, and MDMA is demethylated to MDA, again another example of active metabolites.

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