Characteristics and social representation of ecstasy in Europe - Irefrea

These data are interesting in order to know the type of market. Does it exist adiversity or a frequent change of the presentation of ecstasy in the market?. These datashow us that Utrecht is the place with the greater stability in the presentation of ecstasy.In this city, 58,7% has only taken one form of ecstasy pills. Palma de Mallorca andCoimbra are the cities with the highest changes.IMPORTANCE GIVEN BY THE CONSUMERS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OFTHE PILLS COMPOSITION (in %)COIMBRA MODENA NICE PALMA UTRECHTIt does not matter 18,9 45,3 16,6 33,1 14,2I’d like to know,but I take it anyway 65,7 11,5 53,8 55,4 58,5If I don’t know the composition,I prefer not to take them. 15,4 43,2 29,7 11,4 27,3The Palma de Mallorca users are the less interested in knowing the exact content ofthe ecstasy pills. Something similar happens in Coimbra. The sample from Nice andUtrecht follow a parallel behaviour, and among them, 30% of the answers affirm that ifthey do not know the composition of a pill they prefer not to take it, which does notexactly mean they will not take it at the end.The results corresponding to the Modena’s sample can look contradictory because theyare very polarised. Half of the sample do not bother at all which is the composition of tabletsand the other half looks quite worried about it. A possible explanation of this behaviourcould be that at the same time that was done the field work there was a big preventivecampaign in that Italian region very centred in the question of the pills composition.The results in this Table would seem to indicate the scant interest shownspontaneously by young people in the composition of the tables, and this should betaken into account in those campaigns that lay great emphasis on this aspect. Theseresults would coincide with the idea that, in general, young people do not look for atablet with a specific chemical composition. They are not buying MDMA, they arebuying “ecstasy” with is a much broader thing but, at the same time, one that theyunderstand better than a simple chemical formula. These young people buy thesubstance to enjoy their night out and are convinced that the goods they buy, whatevertheir composition, will help them to achieve it.AGE OF THE FIRST USE (In years)COIMBRA MODENA NICE PALMA UTRECHTMean 21,30 18,28 20,88 18,94 21,45Median 2100, 1800, 2000, 1800, 2100,Standard Deviation. 02,50 03,12 04,58 03,76 04,15Huber M-Estimator 21,11 18,06 19,99 18,39 20,9468