Use of social media and messaging platforms to purchase illicit drugs, among a sample of people in Australia who regularly use ecstasy and/or other illicit stimulants, 2023

The Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS) is a national drug monitoring system intended to identify emerging trends of local and national concern in illicit drug markets. It forms part of Drug Trends.

This bulletin aims to identify (a) the use of social media and messaging platforms to arrange the purchase of drugs, (b) the platform/s being used, (c) who drugs are being obtained from, and if this person is advertising the sale of illicit drugs via these platform/s.