Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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Ecstasy use in city increases sharply

YDN Staff Reporter
Published Friday, January 12, 2001

Police have been predicting for years that popular club drug Ecstasy was on the way in. Now they want to shove it back out the door before more people end up like Michael Fox.

Fox, 19, who police believe overdosed on several drugs last weekend -- including alcohol, Ecstasy, cocaine, Percodan and "Special K," or ketamine -- has become the latest poster child for national news media admonishing the dangers of drugs, particularly Ecstasy, and their connection to nightclubs and "raves."

His death came amid reports from the State Police Narcotics Task Force and city police...

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