MDMA

Grayson Perry Ms. Spain English IV Rough Draft The war on drugs The U.S is questioning if they should continue the war on drugs. Drugs are harmful to people, but they are very hard, almost impossible to get off the streets in not only the US, but other countries as well. It is important that the United States is spending money and time on drugs because drugs are too harmful and deadly. Its very important for the health and well being of our country that drugs get off of the street, soon. Some…

“Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no” (Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard). Crystal meth users in Hawaii is not a recent problem. It started in the late 1970s, but since then, the number of people smoking “ice” has steadily increased. In 2002, more than 2,730 people sought treatment for their crystal meth addiction (“Drug Epidemic”). Social workers have predicted that if crystal meth use keeps on increasing at the…

Is Synthetic Marijuana bad for you? The whole premise for making our communities safer by discouraging the use of illicit, and in some cases licit drugs, and prosecuting their use was a plot of ingenuity. John Ehrlichman, trusted confidant, and counsel under President Nixon, parlayed this sentiment to a tee (Sharp, 1994). The subsequent conception of propaganda campaigns attempted to discourage its use. Furthermore, the establishment of acts such as, the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, along…

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Dimethyltryptamine is a psychedelic drug in the tryptamine drug family (Drugfree.org). The street name or common name for this drug is DMT. It could also be referred to as Dimitri, Fantasia, or Businessman's Trip (Drugfree.org). DMT is not a native drug to the United States. At first it had to be imported, but now there are many companies that can mail you seeds for your own plants and some companies even mail you live plants. DMT is found in some plants and seeds, it can also be made…

3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), more commonly known as ecstasy, has become a popular recreational drug for adolescents participating in “raves”. Taken as a tablet, MDMA indirectly increases the concentration of serotonin in the central nervous system through the inhibition of monoamine transporters, vesicular monoamine transporters (VMAT) and monoamine oxidase (MAO). Although, MDMA also increases the amount of dopamine and noradrenaline, the excessive release of serotonin is the…

I do believe MDMA has potential for therapeutic use. Even though, drugs can be dangerous but if there is research and potential use for medical situations, I would recommend drugs to be used for patients who needs it. However, this should be used carefully; therefore, doctors or pharmacists would need to keep check on the amount of drugs they are prescribing, such as MDMA. We would not want people abusing drugs or getting addicting. If they are getting better then doctors can find other…

rejection or negative emotion. Frye, Wardle, Norman and de Wit (2014) used a virtual ball-tossing task, whereby a computer-generated group passed a ball to the participant, or skipped them completely, to examine the pro-social effects of MDMA. They found that MDMA reduced the impact to and of social rejection during the task, and increased feelings of positivity. However, it is also known to cause certain adverse effects on users, such as derealisation; an altered perception of the world, so…

which inspired me to research whether there was a connection between the historic perception of MDMA and its current situation is The Historian As Participant. This document dives into how history is influenced by the conflicting perspectives and bias, as well as the effect…

deemed illegal in certain countries, MDMA began to emerge. In 1970, biochemist Alexander Shulgin explored controlling the altered consciousness MDMA had on people. Following Shulgin, around 4,000 psychiatrists and psychologists began experimenting with MDMA in their practice. Case reports from individual psychiatrists and psychologist proved that MDMA-assisted psychotherapy was successful in treating their patients. Although case reports analyzing the effects of MDMA were published, there are no…