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		<title>By: mattbowden</title>
		<link>http://www.synchronium.net/2009/07/29/comments-from-matt-bowden/comment-page-1/#comment-10177</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Reece, 

Nice to meet you, thanks for taking the time to comment. 

Unsure if you&#039;ve clearly read what I said on the page above but to clarify my position and give you some more info: BZP is synthetic and not naturally occurring; there were A&amp;E presentations in NZ but the majority of these people who presented to A&amp;E in NZ were not ADMITTED to hospital, most were not serious cases, and none of the recorded cases had followed our dosage instructions In many cases the treatment provided was &quot;verbal reassurance.&quot; There was a thorough analysis carried out of all available hospital records which you can read about at the link below; 

As far as I know there is no evidence of neurotoxicity associated with BZP studies, have been carried out in this area, when last I checked on them they were showing BZP users brains as being essentially normal. 

meta-chlorophenylpiperazine (mCPP) is a different compound to BZP, however I am not aware of any cases of mCPP induced psychosis or comparative studies with MDMA. I think methamphetamine would be a better drug to compare BZP to if a comparison were made. 

If you are interested in reading more detail on a number of these statements there is a risk analysis and research summary on BZP here http://www.mattbowden.com/PBST-RA-Final-smaller.pdf  

I don&#039;t think it is fair comment to suggest in a public forum that I &quot;push&quot; or otherwise present BZP as a &quot;natural&quot; high, I worked hard to correct this misconception over a number of years, perhaps you have confused me with somebody else, if you can back up your statements feel free to do so here.

I understand that the BZP effect is not the most sought after drug effect and that MDMA is a preferred drug but I am comfortable with the way that we have presented its safety profile.

Thanks

Matt</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reece, </p>
<p>Nice to meet you, thanks for taking the time to comment. </p>
<p>Unsure if you&#8217;ve clearly read what I said on the page above but to clarify my position and give you some more info: BZP is synthetic and not naturally occurring; there were A&amp;E presentations in NZ but the majority of these people who presented to A&amp;E in NZ were not ADMITTED to hospital, most were not serious cases, and none of the recorded cases had followed our dosage instructions In many cases the treatment provided was &#8220;verbal reassurance.&#8221; There was a thorough analysis carried out of all available hospital records which you can read about at the link below; </p>
<p>As far as I know there is no evidence of neurotoxicity associated with BZP studies, have been carried out in this area, when last I checked on them they were showing BZP users brains as being essentially normal. </p>
<p>meta-chlorophenylpiperazine (mCPP) is a different compound to BZP, however I am not aware of any cases of mCPP induced psychosis or comparative studies with MDMA. I think methamphetamine would be a better drug to compare BZP to if a comparison were made. </p>
<p>If you are interested in reading more detail on a number of these statements there is a risk analysis and research summary on BZP here <a href="http://www.mattbowden.com/PBST-RA-Final-smaller.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.mattbowden.com/PBST-RA-Final-smaller.pdf</a>  </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think it is fair comment to suggest in a public forum that I &#8220;push&#8221; or otherwise present BZP as a &#8220;natural&#8221; high, I worked hard to correct this misconception over a number of years, perhaps you have confused me with somebody else, if you can back up your statements feel free to do so here.</p>
<p>I understand that the BZP effect is not the most sought after drug effect and that MDMA is a preferred drug but I am comfortable with the way that we have presented its safety profile.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Matt</p>
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		<title>By: reece brown</title>
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		<dc:creator>reece brown</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>what a load of tripe! There were loads of people admitted to A&amp;E in NZ because of BZP - this guy pushes BZP as a &#039;natural&#039; high but to be honest its a lot more psychotically dangerous than MDMA - especially the MCPP varieties of piperzines</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>what a load of tripe! There were loads of people admitted to A&amp;E in NZ because of BZP &#8211; this guy pushes BZP as a &#8216;natural&#8217; high but to be honest its a lot more psychotically dangerous than MDMA &#8211; especially the MCPP varieties of piperzines</p>
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