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DEA Issues Warning About New Designer Drug

(APP: Amway Parody Press) DEA's Karen Tandy issued a warning today about a fast growing drug trend among America's young people. 

The new designer drug known as "Double X-XS-C" (pronounced like "ecstasy") appears to be a stimulant as well as a hallucinogen.  Tandy noted that what makes this drug so dangerous is that anyone can make it at home with common ingredients.  These ingredients can be purchased from the Internet or your friendly neighborhood Amway/Quixtar distributor.  

The ingredients, consisting of Amway Double X^® vitamins, Amway XS^® energy drink and Amway vitamin C tablets, can all be purchased legally on the street.  Tandy refused to say what the exact proportions of each ingredient was being used to make the Double Ecstasy drug.

X-XS-C (Double "Ecstasy")

Tandy noted that the drug's popularity has skyrocketed due to its unique marketing strategy.  Unlike traditional retail drug marketing found on the street today, this drug is marketed in a pyramid scheme fashion where drug dealers can recruit other drug dealers and get a cut of the downline drug dealers' profits. 

Not only do the drug dealers promise you can get a cheap high with this drug, they also promise you can get rich in 2-5 years and retire with a residual cash flow from the drug dealers you recruit.

The main backing for the drug comes from a loose affiliation of  commercial-religious cults with strange names such as WWDB, BWW, Pronet, Biznet, etc.

The use of the drug is still setting records and the largest uses appear to be the drug dealers themselves.   Tandy noted that there is not much of a retail market for the drug.  However, among the users themselves there seems to be great excitement about the drug.   

It is reported that users have conferences and motivation secessions dedicated to helping the dealers expand their network of double ecstasy junkies.

The DEA also noted that the ethnic minorities and immigrants make up a unusually high proportion of the most recent users.

The king pin distributors use sophisticated marking techniques including giving away free samples of the double ecstasy concoction, as well as brainwashing cassette tapes and CDs that distributors are expected to buy and listen to.

Many of the cults even have mottoes, such as "Have fun, Make money, Help people get high",  like that of the "Moneyman Productions" run by a man named Victor.

Victor is shown here overdosed on X-XS-C at one of the many cult sessions for the drug.

X-XS-C (Double "Ecstasy")

Street terms for X-XS-C: Double Ecstasy, profit, cash, cash-rush

What does Double Ecstasy look like?

• Double Ecstasy is distributed in tablet/liquid form.

How is Double Ecstasy used?

• Double Ecstasy is usually ingested in tablet form with an XS chaser, but can also be crushed and snorted, injected, or used in suppository form.

Who uses Double Ecstasy?

• In 2005, more than 380,000 people age 12 and older reported that they have used Ecstasy at least once in their lives.
• Double Ecstasy is popular among middle-class adolescents, young adults and immigrant/ethnic Americans.
• Double Ecstasy is sold primarily on the internet, at underground nightclubs sometimes called "acid houses," or at all-night parties known as "major functions."

How much does Double Ecstasy cost?

• It costs as little as 2 to 5 cents to manufacture a hit of Double Ecstasy.   The street value of that same Ecstasy hit can be as high as $3.80.⁴

What are some of the consequences of using Double Ecstasy?

• In addition to chemical stimulation, the drug reportedly suppresses the need to eat, drink, or sleep.⁵
• When taken at major functions, where all-night dancing usually occurs, the drug often leads to severe dehydration and heat stroke in the user since it has the effect of "short-circuiting" the signals to the brain.⁶
• A Double Ecstasy overdose is characterized by a rapid heartbeat, high blood pressure, faintness, muscle cramping, panic attacks, and, in more severe cases, loss of consciousness or seizures. One of the side effects of the drug is jaw muscle tension and teeth grinding. As a consequence, Double Ecstasy users will often listen to Amway motivation tapes to help relieve the tension.⁷
• Double Ecstasy may cause lasting credit card debt, discolored urine, urge to urinate, and temporary disablement of sections of brain critical to thought and memory, and rational thought.⁸
• Double Ecstasy may cause hallucinations of wealth and riches.
• Double Ecstasy may cause uses to cut pictures from magazines and tape them to their refrigerators.

¹Office of National Drug Control Policy, Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade.
²Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Summary of Findings from the 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, September 2001.
³Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Trafficking in the United States, September 2001.
⁴Ibid.
⁵Drug Enforcement Administration, Club Drugs: An Update, September 2001.
⁶Ibid.
⁷Ibid.
⁸National Institute on Drug Abuse, Infofax: MDMA (Ecstasy).