Compared with other popular drugs, ecstasy has a relatively low mortality rate. In a factsheet on drug-related deaths issued in September 1996, the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence (ISDD) compared the annual mortality rates for four different types of drug, estimated on the basis of the available evidence about prevalence, consumption and deaths up to 1994. The reported mortality rates were 1.5% to 3% for opiate users, 0.9% for tobacco users, 0.5% for alcohol users, and 0.0002% for...