Follow Me Up To Carlton said:
I think the scariest thing about E's is that they can actually make you enjoy house music.
Indeed. From the Dr Nick Riviera journal of medicine:
MDMA, or ‘ecstasy’, is a synthetic, psychoactive (mind-altering) drug with hallucinogenic and amphetamine-like properties. Its chemical structure is similar to two other synthetic drugs, MDA and methamphetamine, which are known to cause brain damage. According to its proponents, ecstasy can make people trust each other and break down barriers between therapists and patients, lovers and family members. It also makes trance music sound good, and fun to dance to. The stimulant effects of the drug, which enable the user to dance for extended periods, combined with the hot, crowded conditions usually found at crappy hardcore trance clubs can lead to dehydration, hypothermia, and heart or kidney failure. Other problems include psychological difficulties, such as confusion, depression, sleep problems, drug craving, severe anxiety, and paranoia. You also start to like trance music. Physical problems such as muscle tension, involuntary teeth clenching, nausea, blurred vision, rapid eye movement, faintness and chills or sweating. You also dance to trance music. It causes an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, a special risk for people with circulatory or heart disease. You are also at risk of buying a trance CD and listening to it. Long term effects - recent research findings also link MDMA use to long-term damage to those parts of the brain critical to thought and memory. It is believed that the drug causes damage to the neurons that use the chemical serotonin to communicate with other neurons. You may also end up with several trance albums in your CD collection.
