Ecstasy (methylenedioxymethamphetamine MDMA) is a synthetic, psychoactive drug chemically like the stimulant methamphetamine and the hallucinogen mescaline. Anton Köllisch discovered ecstasy and he wanted to create a pill so can decrease weight lost. Later in the 1950’s they then used it in therapy to lower anxiety issues. Further down the line it was passed down to night clubs and then eventually colleges for them to have good experiences. So, by time 1980’s came the drug was very popular and everybody had to have it. Ecstasy goes by a lot of street names but the most common street names are; beans, love drug, X, and molly is the most public name there is. Ecstasy is an illegal drug and is not addictive as cocaine but it
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The most common side effect would be depression, anxiety and paranoia. If you take ecstasy for one day you start to crave for it and if you can’t get it then you start to have sleep problems, anxiety and a lot confusion causing a lot of psychological effect. If you use ecstasy it puts most people in happy places; they have a lot of inner peace with themselves also users feel like they are very much so untouchable. Most of the time the users have a lot of hallucetions but they don’t quite care because they have less anxiety issues. Most people use it before they have sexual intercourse or if they are going to parties. If they take it before parties the loud music and the flashing lights will work together with the drug and some users usually enjoying being around a large crowd and everybody usually is having a good time. Ecstasy users who are most dancing at parties become dehydrated and start to collapse and overheat. Dancing in parties begins the overheating process, the drug takes over the body temperature and it’s not regulated anymore so then you become dehydrated and then beinging to have a heat
The most common side effect would be depression, anxiety and paranoia. If you take ecstasy for one day you start to crave for it and if you can’t get it then you start to have sleep problems, anxiety and a lot confusion causing a lot of psychological effect. If you use ecstasy it puts most people in happy places; they have a lot of inner peace with themselves also users feel like they are very much so untouchable. Most of the time the users have a lot of hallucetions but they don’t quite care because they have less anxiety issues. Most people use it before they have sexual intercourse or if they are going to parties. If they take it before parties the loud music and the flashing lights will work together with the drug and some users usually enjoying being around a large crowd and everybody usually is having a good time. Ecstasy users who are most dancing at parties become dehydrated and start to collapse and overheat. Dancing in parties begins the overheating process, the drug takes over the body temperature and it’s not regulated anymore so then you become dehydrated and then beinging to have a heat