History
- The 80s Are Back – Club Hordern: A retrospective (Powerhouse Museum)
- Sydney Rave History – 1989-1990 List of Rave Parties
- RAT Parties (Wikipedia)
Resources
Relevant stories
- Ecstasy in comeback as new generation discovers dance drug (The Guardian, 31 May 2016)
- Call to make ecstasy legal and sell it at pharmacies (The Age, 5 July 2015)
- Calls to legalise ecstasy over-the-counter in Australia grow with experts’ support (Pedestrian Daily, 5 July 2015)
- Behind Australia’s love affair with illicit drugs (The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 May 2015)
- ‘Molly’ overdoses send 10 Wesleyan University students to hospital (The Guardian, 24 February 2015)
- Deaths highlight ecstasy dangers but does zero-tolerance put lives at risk? (7.30 on ABC News, 16 February 2015)
- Teen dead after Sydney State of Trance dance party (The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 February 2015)
- Sydney New Year’s Eve: Six hospitalised, 31 arrested for drugs at Above & Beyond dance party (The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 January 2015)
- Eight clues your high-achieving teen does drugs (Kidspot.com.au, 20 December 2014)
- Finding ecstasy (Storify, 12 December 2014)
- Man arrested with 50 ecstasy pills at Stereosonic in Adelaide (Herald Sun, 7 December 2014)
- Police make second largest drug bust in Australian history (The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 November 2014)
- Drug possession arrests double in past six years across NSW (The Sydney Morning Herald, 28 November 2014)
- Making drugs safer (Richard Branson, 25 November 2014)
- What are your ‘ecstasy years’ doing to you today? (Daily Life, 24 November 2014)
- Three arrested in party boat drug raid (The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 November 2014)
- Fears of bad ecstasy batch after four hospitalised in Sydney’s south (The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 November 2014)
- Schoolies: Nine arrested, one hospitalised at SA’s Victor Harbor festival for school leavers (ABC News, 22 November 2014)
- Four men hospitalised from suspected drug overdoses at Sydney’s Ivy nightclub (The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 November 2014)
- No easy fix for preventing drug deaths (The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 November 2014)
- ‘It’s definitely the drug of our generation’: Ecstasy remains a choice for many despite risks (The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 November 2014)
- Ecstasy ‘very easy’ to obtain, report (The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 November 2014)
- OMCG member charged after police seize 20kg in “ecstasy” pills (NSW Police Force, 28 October 2014)
(AsapSCIENCE, 16 October 2014)
- Deadly party drug seized in NSW and SA (The Daily Telegraph, 30 September 2014)
(BITE News, 24 September 2014)
- Meet molly, the drug that’s finding its way into teen music and pop culture (The Huffington Post, 16 October 2013)
- Why US pop has gone mad for Molly, aka ecstasy (The Guardian, 15 July 2013)
- Molly: pure, but not so simple (The New York Times, 21 June 2013)
(Cedric Gervais, 2 April 2012 … the street-name of ecstasy had changed over the decades, but its popularity remains the same)
- Ecstasy in pop culture: a highly subjective timeline (Flavorwire, 16 February 2011)
- A second summer of love (The Guardian, 20 April 2008)
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