Hampton’s Pharmacy School Receives $2 Million to Study Ecstasy
HAMPTON, Va.
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Hampton University School of Pharmacy recently received a $2.1 million award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse at National Institutes of Health to study the causes of the symptoms associated with the drug MDMA (Ecstasy).
MDMA is a synthetic, psychoactive drug with both stimulant and hallucinogenic properties. Street names for MDMA include Ecstasy, Adam, XTC, hug, beans and love drug.
