Conor Stewart
Research expert covering health & pharmaceuticals in the UK & Europe
Get in touch with us nowIn 2018, 92 people died as a result of MDMA/ecstasy use in England and Wales, this was by far the highest amount of recorded deaths in the 25-year period shown, while 51 deaths were recorded as a result of MDMA in 2022. Since the turn of the century, the number of deaths has remained relatively high apart from a drastic fall in 2010 and 2011 before subsequently rising again.
Seriousness of MDMA offences
In the United Kingdom (UK) MDMA is categorized as a class A drug which means it carries the most severe penalties for both possession and supply. In 2018/19, police in England and Police carried out almost 2.7 thousand seizures of ecstasy. This is approximately a 65 percent drop in the number of seizures compared to 2006/07.
Comparisons with the rest of Europe
In 2019, the UK, as a whole, was only behind the Netherlands and Ireland in prevalence of ecstasy use among each respective population. Additionally, the UK had the fourth-largest weight of ecstasy tablets seized in 2017 in Europe, at over 513 thousand kilograms.
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