PMA Stats & Data

PMA and its relative PMMA can be considered extremely toxic when compared to other substances such as Methamphetamine or MDMA . Ingestion of PMA has been associated with severe tachycardia (abnormally high heart rate), seizures, dehydration, hyperthermia, and death. PMA has a relatively slow onset, causing many users to redose which causes excess toxicity. It is strongly recommended that one use harm reduction practices when using this substance.

Effects aggregated from 8 experience reports (8 single-substance Erowid)

Each bar is the share of reports mentioning the effect; its whisker, and the band on the rows below, is the 95% interval: where the share could plausibly be with other reports of the same kind.

Too few reports for bars: these effects come from 8 single-substance Erowid reports, and a bar is drawn only from 20 reports or more. With fewer, a percentage cannot tell a common effect from a rare one. Counts are shown instead. Why 20?

Also reported in combinations. In the 9 PMA reports where another drug was taken too, 4 mention hospital, emergency services or an overdose, 0 a seizure and 2 psychosis (too few reports for percentages). In the 8 single-substance reports: 4, 0 and 0. These are not in the figures above: they cannot be put down to PMA alone, and a mention is not always something that happened to the writer.

Most co-occurring substances, as a share of all 17 reports filed under PMA

Too few reports for bars: these combinations come from 17 reports, and a bar is drawn only from 20 reports or more. With fewer, a percentage cannot tell a common effect from a rare one. Counts are shown instead. Why 20?

• THC 4 of 17

Most common forms and preparations, as a share of the 8 reports that give one

Too few reports for bars: these forms come from 8 reports, and a bar is drawn only from 20 reports or more. With fewer, a percentage cannot tell a common effect from a rare one. Counts are shown instead. Why 20?

• Pill / Tablet 7 of 8

Redosing behavior across 10 reports