The Poisoning of Suburbia by Ted Oehmke
Contaminated illegal drugs have never been a big issue in the United States. But if the demand for Ecstasy continues to rise, as some researchers speculate it will, more and more dealers may start substituting deadly substances like PMA for less harmful drugs like MDMA. Sara Aeschlimann's parents discovered this trend when their only daughter died after taking what was supposedly the hottest version of Ecstasy around- "double stack white Mitsubishi."
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=9446

Drug Alert-The Hallucinogen PMA: Dancing with Death by Drug Enforcement Administration
Paramethoxyamphetamine (PMA), also known as 4-methoxyamphetamine, is an illicit, synthetic hallucinogen that has stimulant effects similar to other clandestinely manufactured amphetamine derivatives like MDMA (Ecstasy). Until recently, illicit abuse of PMA was briefly encountered during the early 1970s in the United States and Canada. However, since February 2000, PMA has reemerged in Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Virginia, and Canada. Moreover, since May 2000, PMA ingestion has been associated with three deaths in Chicago, Illinois, and seven deaths in central Florida. This article focuses on the effects, abuse, production and distribution of this recreational drug.
The following document is in pdf format. Source: DEA: Drug Intelligence Brief.
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/intel/20025intellbrief.pdf

PMA Warning by DanceSafe.org
PMA is a hallucinogenic stimulant responsible for several deaths. PMA is a not a recreational drug. There is no demand for it like there is for Ecstasy. It is not being manufactured because people like it. It is being manufactured and sold as "Ecstasy" because the chemicals to make it are easier to obtain than the chemicals to make real Ecstasy. Find out more about PMA: the effects and what the tablets look like in this article.
http://www.dancesafe.org/pma_faq.html#intro

Sphehr: PMA Paramethoxyamphetamine by Science Promotion, Health Education, and Harm Reduction.
Despite some rumors, PMA is very unlikely to be a bi-product of MDMA synthesis. While a small quantity is produced legally for research purposes, most is produced in illicit laboratories. It appears in Ecstasy tablets as a result of deliberate misrepresentation somewhere in the chain of black market distribution. Sphehr examines this emerging drug, its chemistry, effects, and risks.
http://www.sphehr.org/PMA

Paramethoxyamphetamine: Recipe for Disaster by Rob Van Kruistum
There is a new reason to be worried if you are using the popular rave drug Ecstasy. Now, when users buy what they believe is Ecstasy, they may in fact be buying pills that have PMA, a drug that is far deadlier than MDMA. In the past year, PMA has been turning up in Europe, the United States, and more recently Canada. In most cases, even the dealers don't know what's in the pills they are selling. This has a wide cross section of the dance, rave, medical, and law enforcement communities worried.
http://imprint.uwaterloo.ca/issues/112400/3Science/science01.shtml

Deadly Club Drug Resurfaces in the States by Christy Botsford
PMA, which is also known as "Death" and "Mitsubishi Double-Stack," is a hallucinogen that is typically produced in secret laboratories. PMA in small doses can cause an elevated body temperature, increased pulse rate and blood pressure, increased and labored respiration, nausea, and muscle spasms. Taken at higher dosages, PMA may cause cardiac arrest, renal failure, hypothermia, convulsions, coma, and death.
http://www.health.org/newsroom/rep/146.htm

New Designer Drug Blamed for Deaths by Donna Leinwand
Steve Lorenz, 17, died May 7 in McHenry, Ill., after taking PMA, which he thought was Ecstasy. A week later, Sara Aeschlimann, 18, of Naperville, Ill., overdosed after taking several PMA pills while watching movies with a friend. On May 27, Jason Burnett, 20, of Lisle, Ill., died after taking the drug along with cocaine and heroin, investigators have said. This dangerous knockoff of the club drug Ecstasy is popping up in suburbs of major U.S. cities, where it has been blamed in the recent deaths of nine young adults and teenagers.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/health/addiction/lhadd044.htm

A Killer Invades The Club Scene
On the streets of south Florida, police are only beginning to realize what they're dealing with. A recent seizure of what they thought was Ecstasy turned out to be pills they couldn't identify. It took the DEA's national drug laboratory to determine the pills were PMA. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is now using undercover surveillance videotape to try to track PMA. So far, the killer club drug has been more often identified in the morgue than on the dance floor.
http://cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,239732-412,00.shtml

Killer Club Drug
A drug which cooks you from the inside out, boils your brain like an egg, but looks like regular 'E' is being sold as Ecstasy in clubs across the globe. Instead of being a drug that could kill them, this substance is like a certain death-pill for clubbers. Paramethoxyamphetamine (otherwise known as PMA) is being blended with Ecstasy to create pills that are visually indistinguishable from Ecstasy tablets.
http://www.clubbed.com/clubbers/article799.asp

Overdoses Push Police to Spread Word on Ecstasy Lookalike Drugs by Jeff Coen
Naperville police encouraged schools in the city to send a letter home with students urging parents to discuss "club drugs" and other substances with their kids. Police said Naperville Central High School senior Sara Aeschlimann died after taking paramethoxyamphetamine, or PMA. A 17-year-old McHenry youth died of an overdose May 7, and police there are investigating whether the same Ecstasy lookalike was to blame. Pharmacologists say Ecstasy and PMA are stimulants, but PMA is many times more powerful. The substance can rapidly boost the body's temperature and cause heart failure.
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/pma/references/media/2000_chicago_3.shtml

New Fatal Imported Drug Hits Nightclubs
Costing as little as $10, a PMA dose is white, slightly larger than an aspirin and is stamped with three diamonds in the shape of a Mitsubishi logo. It's able to poach a victim's brain like an egg by raising body temperatures to as high as 108 degrees. This drug is being sold on Central Florida's nightclub scene and has set off a statewide alert after being tied to six deaths.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1442/a01.html