One unusual aspect of the most recent Europe-wide panic was one of the NL victims in 2014 was a 41 year old female.
This is in the context that ravers in NL have access to harm reduction for 2 decades, slightly higher gender equality than UK (although perhaps not as much as DE) and also seem to keep partying well into their late youth, many only stopping/calming down at age 50 and some have far less shame in leading this lifestyle (Tiësto is after all in his late 40s now and from Breda!)
This led to articles on trouw.nl (a broadly Christian newspaper with a large female readership) and the womens section of De Telegraaf (possibly the same article by a freelancer slightly rehashed for both newspapers) discussing this issue and the use of party drugs by young women as a whole (with interviews with quite a few).
Opinions were as expected increasingly divided about this, and the responses highlighted a growing unease amongst female users that they could get fertility problems or if they are already parents risked leaving their kids motherless.
The science relating to female users (unsurprisingly) suggest the effects of all amfetamine type stimulants are related to what point they are at on their menstrual cycle – it is only very recently this research has been done in NL (where society actually has a lot more trust in authorities in general and there is also a lot easier access to individuals healthcare data than in the UK!).
There are also gender issues in the UK and perhaps the wider Anglosphere where girls/young women have become more reliant on males to give them drug advice rather than searching it out independently for themselves; leading to completely unintentional dosage errors as many young men may be worried giving a girl less would look unfair or even sexist, and it would be even more awkward to ask the same girl “what time of the month” she is at!
