Emergency designation of AMT as a Schedule 1 controlled substance by the Drug Enforcement Administration occurred shortly after the death in Miami-Dade County. The case in Miami involved a young college student who, prior to death, advised his roommate that he was "taking hallucinating drugs" and as a result had "discovered the secret of the universe". Approximately 12 h later, the roommate discovered the deceased lying in bed unresponsive. An empty 1-g vial of AMT was recovered from the scene and sent to the toxicology laboratory. Initial screening of urine by enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique was positive for amphetamines, and the basic drug blood screen detected a small peak later identified by mass spectrometry as AMT.

A 22-year-old frequenter of clubs has died from a new drug on the scene called AMT. Police said in February, 22-year-old Dan Arango, sweating profusely and trembling, told his roommates he had discovered the secrets of the universe. Then the Florida International University student went to sleep and never woke up. His father spoke Monday, saying his son's death hurts a lot especially when he thinks he was only 22 years old. Police said Arango got the drug over the Internet and that it's often passed off as the club drug Ecstasy. Drug experts say they do not yet know the full dangers of AMT.

The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's office said it is certain AMT killed Arango, who was a junior at Florida International University. His family and roommates declined to comment on his death. 'No one has ever died from this drug in Miami, that I know of,' said Dr. Lee Hearn, director of the Miami-Dade medical examiner's toxicology lab, who has been working there for more than 16 years. Hearn is researching how AMT killed Arango, which he said would be challenging because he also has to figure out how much of the drug Arango took and how. The white to off-white crystal powder, which smells like fertilizer, can be smoked, snorted or swallowed in pills. It makes people retch before making them high -- then it keeps them there for at least 12 hours. The drug, which was sold briefly as an antidepressant in the Soviet Union in the 1960s, is considered a psychedelic and has more in common with LSD than Ecstasy.

Officials say a junior at Florida International University has become the first person to die from a new club drug that is just beginning to make its way to Florida. 22-year-old Dan Arango died February 2nd after he took a drug called alpha-methyltryptamine, or A-M-T. Arango bought the drug online. Doctor Lee Hearn, director of the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's toxicology lab, says this is the first death in the county from the drug.

I lost a very close friend of mine to AMT (possibly 5-MeO-AMT) on April 13th. His "friends" dropped my friend off at someone's house on their way to a club (not sure if they took AMT with my friend, quite possible) because he was 'having a bad trip'. After he was dropped off, everyone went to sleep. The kid who lives at the house woke up to my friend turning blue...by the time the ambulance got there, my friend's life was lost forever.

This did not make it to the media, even though I would like it to. It is solely up to his parents, whom I am very close to. I would rather not give out his name until I get permission from his parents. He was from Camden-Wyoming Delaware, a very small town about 15 minutes off of Rt. 13. I do not know much about his death. The drug has not been traced in his autopsy report (which I spoke directly to his mother about), but I have heard straight from the source that this is the drug he was taking.