Ecstasy inquiries included 6 babies

SIX inquiries about the ingestion of ecstasy by babies and toddlers have been made to the National Poisons Information Centre (NPIC).

The centre, based at Beaumont Hospital, received 286 inquiries regarding ecstasy poisoning from 2004-2007.

“Six of these inquiries concerned suspected ecstasy ingestion in children aged three years or less,” the centre points out in a letter published in the latest issue of the Irish Medical Journal.