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	Ecstacy \| Drug Rehab and Addiction Treatment Information \| Drug Rehab Referrals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The “designer” drug known as ecstasy is also known by the chemical abbreviation “MDMA.” Addiction is only one of the problems experienced by the use of “ecstasy.” Ecstasy users experience problems similar to those experienced by amphetamine and cocaine users.
		For the young people attending raves the drug of choice since the 1980’s is ecstasy.
		Several standardized memory test were administered to 24 MDMA users that had not used the drug for at least two weeks and then 24 people that had never used the drug.
	www.drugrehabreferral.com /content/ecstacy (758 words)

	drug-by-drug/cannabis.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ecstacy is a synthetic drug, and as the chemical name suggests the molecule is an ester of amphetamine.
		The drug is absorbed into the blood stream and crosses the blood brain barrier to effect the brain.
		Ecstacy should be taken with a regular supply of water over the period of its action.
	www.drugtest.freeserve.co.uk /ecstacy.htm (600 words)

	ECSTACY - CLUB DRUGS
		These drugs are now illegal and generally used as a part of a nightclub, dance club, bar, rave, or trance scene.
		Drug abuse specialists and researchers have found that MDMA works in the brain to increase the levels of neurotransmitters; mainly serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine.
		Despite the many known detrimental consequences of use of Ecstacy and other club drugs there continues to be an increase usage by high school and college students and other social settings in the USA and other developed nations.
	www.darvsmith.com /dox/clubdrugs.html (1126 words)

	Drugs of Abuse - Ecstacy - Drug Rehab - Alcohol Rehab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The ultimate goal of all drug abuse treatment is to enable the patient to achieve lasting abstinence, but the immediate goals are to reduce drug use, improve the patient's ability to function, and minimize the medical and social complications of drug abuse.
		Drug treatment programs in prisons can succeed in preventing patients' return to criminal behavior, particularly if they are linked to community-based programs that continue treatment when the client leaves prison.
		For example, the "Delaware Model," an ongoing study of comprehensive treatment of drug- addicted prison inmates, shows that prison-based treatment including a therapeutic community setting, a work release therapeutic community, and community-based aftercare reduces the probability of rearrest by 57 percent and reduces the likelihood of returning to drug use by 37 percent.
	www.drug-rehab-center.info /drugs_of_abuse_ecstacy.html (1825 words)

	Georgia drug rehab ecstasy addiction treatment
		MDMA or ecstasy is a Schedule I synthetic, psychoactive drug possessing stimulant and hallucinogenic properties.
		Illicit use of the drug did not become popular until the late 1980s and early 1990s.
		Users of the drug say that it produces profoundly positive feelings, empathy for others, elimination of anxiety, and extreme relaxation.
	www.georgia-drug-rehab.com /ecstasy-addiction.html (420 words)

	Ecstacy
		It is also said that ecstacy suppresses the need to eat drink and sleep, allowing club scene users to endure all night and some times two or three day parties.
		In the early 1980’s Ecstacy quickly became the "in" drug for weekend parties in some areas and continued until 1988 when DEA took steps to make it a Schedule I drug.
		Ecstacy is targeted to appeal to teenagers and young adults.
	www.nevamo.com /ecstacy.htm (637 words)

	The Daily Californian
		In 1941, the drug had almost been approved to help suffers of Parkinson's disease, but was abandoned, due to the rigidity in the muscles found by test subjects.
		Ecstacy became known as the "love drug" and its use became so rampant through recreational use that it was banned in 1985.
		Ecstacy's effects are often slow, as users must wait up to an hour for its effects to occur.
	www.dailycal.org /printable.php?id=3489 (699 words)

	Ecstacy latest drug threat in US: News24: Archive: News24
		The Drug Enforcement Agency sounded the alarm recently, calling a conference of experts to discuss strategies to deal with the new threat, but even the government's drug czar, Barry McCaffrey, was forced to concede that no appropriate counter to it had been found.
		In addition there is to be a five-billion-dollar publicity campaign to bring the dangers of the drug, which is dealt and used mainly at large "rave" events, to the public's attention.
		There are no reliable estimates of the number of US teenagers experimenting with the drug or using it regularly, but the authorities regard the quantities smuggled and the switch by the big crime organisations from heroin and cocaine as an indication that there is cause for alarm.
	www.news24.com /News24/Archive/0,,2-1659_895895,00.html (671 words)

	Ecstasy Information : Family-Drug-Intervention.Net
		Ecstacy is said to produce empathy, decreased anxiety, relaxation and heightened senses.
		The study concluded that even recreational users of the drug might be at risk of developing permanent damage that can manifest depression, anxiety, memory loss, and neuropsychotic disorders.
		Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) estimates reveal that nationwide hospital emergency room mentions for MDMA rose dramatically from 70 in 1993 to 2,850 in 1999.
	www.family-drug-intervention.net /mdma_addiction.html (594 words)

	D.A.A.P.: Facts About Ecstacy and GBH
		It is one of a huge family of related drugs from the MDA family which fall between the hallucinogens LSD and amphetamines.
		Drugs of this hallucinogenic type (including ecstasy) can act as a catalyst for people who have undeveloped mental health problems, causing the problems to appear sooner than they would otherwise do.
		It has been sold as a drug that makes sex go with a bang, but there is no evidence that it can do any more for your sex life than the way alcohol might "loosen you up a bit".
	www.daap.ca /factsonecstacy.html (761 words)

	John Gilmore's comments on Ecstacy emergency re-sentencing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Drug warriors could reasonably conclude that they have a better chance of passing inappropriate and harsh regulatory changes if the public has little chance to comment.
		Drug policy would benefit from having a South African-style "Truth and Reconciliation" commission -- where people could come to reveal that they had used drugs, teach the rest of society what they learned from doing so, and be absolved of prosecution for what they did.
		His advocacy on drug policy aims to reduce the immense harm caused by current attempts to control the mental states of free citizens.
	www.toad.com /drugs/ecstacy-sentencing.html (2579 words)

	Drug Action Network
		The drug regulation groups like to show that needless tax dollars are lost to the illegal drug fl market, and if recreational drugs were regulated like alcohol, the resultant tax revenues could be used to fund effective treatment programs.
		The national drug trade is estimated to be 60 to 70 Billion a year, none of which is taxed (an estimated loss of 30 to 40 billion in income and direct taxes).
		drug action network is an organization seeking to remove the profit from the drug fl market by ending prohibition and replacing it with regulation, drug, drugs, drug war, war on drugs, addiction, drug addiction, treatment, drug treatment, education, children, parents, parenting, drug reform, drug legalization,drug de-criminalization, drug regulation, drug education, drug abuse, abuse.
	www.drugactionnetwork.com /history/?content=drugwar (1749 words)

	No More Panic - EFFECTS OF ECSTACY (DRUG)?
		Drugs are so poorly written about, most of the information is put there to be offputting.
		Drugs (especially LSD and pills) do make you anxious, a combination of them making the nervous system hyperactive and you not knowing what to expect.
		I agree with Roby, it the trigger and could be anything, I would reckon if the trigger wasnt drugs then youd of got this beatting from anxiety somewhere done the line anyway as you had that window that it was going to jump through sometime.
	www.nomorepanic.co.uk /lounge/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7621 (1610 words)

	Ecstacy Addiction Treatment Centers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Drug Rehab Programs is here to help educate drug addicts and families on how to find the right method of Drug Rehab.
		Ecstasy tablets seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration increased from 13,342 in 1996 to 949,257 in 2000.
		Each year, NHSDA reports on the nature and extent of drug use among the American household population age 12 and older.
	www.addiction-treatments.org /Ecstasy-Drug-Rehab.asp (904 words)

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		Ecstacy has since been reclassified as a Schedule I drug, or one that has "no currently accepted medical use, and for which there is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug." The designer drug ecstacy is in fact methylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA for short.
		Ecstacy is not a new drug, for it has been around for over 75 years.
		Use of the drug is mainly found in, but not limited to, adolescents and young adults.
	www.tpub.com /maa/73.htm (769 words)

	EFFECTS OF HEROIN, MARIJUANA, ECSTACY, ALCOHOL,
		With the more common drugs, there is not much of a problem in detecting; the stench of alcohol and tobacco around the house soon "lets the cat out of the bag" and you can help your children before they get too deeply entrenched and addicted.
		Long-term addiction to these drugs is not difficult to detect because, along with insomnia, paranoia and mental confusion, your children may manifest very poor health through loss of sleep and food.
		One of the main characteristics of these drugs is the suddenness of their effects which could be as soon as an hour (or even less) after consumption and these effects could last for up to twelve hours or more.
	www.webspawner.com /users/ruth8 (1164 words)

	NIDA - Research Report Series - MDMA (Ecstasy) Abuse
		The so-called "club drug" MDMA continues to be used by millions of Americans across the country, despite evidence of its potential harmful effects.
		This illegal drug, which has both stimulant and psychedelic properties, is often taken for the feelings of well-being, stimulation, and the distortions in time and sensory perceptions that it produces.
		But MDMA is not new to the scientific community, as many laboratories began investigating this drug in the 1980s, and the picture emerging from their efforts is of a drug that is far from benign.
	www.drugabuse.gov /ResearchReports/MDMA (452 words)

	Library (NonFAD Resources) Know The Enemies: Marijuana, Shabu, Ecstasy
		Ecstacy is the Johnny-come-lately among the abused drugs. At least 80 percent of all the Ecstacy in the world comes from clandestine labs in the Netherlands.
		Called the “hug-drug,” Ecstacy triggers a chemical reaction in the brain that lowers inhibitions and causes feelings of well being and closeness to others. This is why people on Ecstacy like to touch each other a lot.
		Ecstacy is similar to the stimulant amphetamine (which is contained in shabu) and the halucinogen mescaline. This is why Ecstacy can produce both stimulant and psychedelic effects.
	www.teenfad.ph /library/nonfad/drugabuse.htm (698 words)

	Drug Rehab, Ecstacy, Drug Free At Last (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University demonstrated that 4 days of exposure to the drug caused damage that persisted 6 to 7 years later.
		In recent years, Herbal Ecstasy has been promoted as a safe alternative to the illegal drug Ecstasy, but has been blamed by the FDA for causing at least 17 deaths and 800 illnesses, including nerve damage, strokes and heart attacks.
		Drug and alcohol abuse is seeing a rapid growth in the US and in Canada.
	www.drugfreeatlast.com /ecstacy.html (962 words)

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		Both of these drugs are psychoactive drugs that bring hallucinogenic effects to the user’s mental and bodily functions (Carroll, 225).
		MDMA is a drug that seems to be a pleasure enhancer, yet studies indicate that users of 20 to 180 days have altered serotonin in the central nervous system (Brust, 70).
		In 1985, The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) attained a temporary restriction of the use of MDMA under schedule I. Under the Controlled Substance Act of 1970, schedule I means that a chemical substance become illegal substance, if it is harmful and unsafe to use(J. Drug Education, Volume 33(3), 245).
	www.calstatela.edu /orgs/afp/extacy.htm (2341 words)

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	Drug Addiction Types and Help
		Although being an addict implies drug dependence, it is possible to be dependent on a drug without being addicted.
		The drug has many side effects such as nausea, dry mouth, lowered heart rate, respiratory arrest, etc. When a drug addict stops taking heroin the side effects can become much worse as the user enters into withdrawal also known as withdrawal syndrome.
		The drug is very popular in the club scene and is taken in the form of a pill.
	www.christian-drug-rehab.net /drug-addiction.html (455 words)

	Ecstacy is a synthetic drug in the amphetamine family that, according to some users, produces an initial state of ...
		Ecstacy is a synthetic drug in the amphetamine family that, according to some users, produces an initial state of disorientati
		Ecstacy is a synthetic drug in the amphetamine family that, according to some users, produces an initial state of disorientation followed by a rush and then a mellow, sociable feeling.
		Ecstacy is a psychoactive (mind-altering) drug with amphetamine-like properties.
	www.geocities.com /enntf89/ecstacy1.htm (599 words)

	HTYH: Ecstacy, the Dance Club Drug
		Abuse of the drug known as "ecstacy" is on the rise among Arkansas teenagers, many of whom erroneously believe it is natural and safe.
		Joseph Banken, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), explains that the drug is combination stimulant and hallucinogen.
		Ecstacy produces elevated serotonin levels which heighten sensory perception and the sense of community with everyone nearby.
	www.uams.edu /htyh/1101/ecstacy.htm (186 words)

	What Is A "Flip"?
		A flip is a combination of ecstacy and another drug.
		The ecstacy in most cases insures a positive trip and makes the other drug more friendlier and usually very intense.
		The correct way to do this is to take the ecstacy and on the 4th hour of the ecstacy you eat the mushrooms.
	www.angelfire.com /in/pixiepower/flip.html (548 words)

	According to (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ecstacy has been proven to cause brain damage and both drugs damage the levels of serotonin, dopamine and endorphins in the brain causing depression in users.
		The drug hasn't become a big problem yet but Hall said it is important for people to realize "it is in town" and more is coming.
		Still, Hall noted that ecstacy is "not near as prevalent as marijuana or alcohol," which are still the biggest problems in the Basin, especially for teenagers and young adults.
	www.vernal.com /jun4/fr.marijuana.TXT.html (447 words)

	Ecstasy
		The stimulant effects of the drug which enable the user to dance for extended periods, combined with the hot, crowded conditions usually found at raves can lead to dehydration, hyperthermia, and heart and kidney failure.
		The drug blocks the natural re-uptake of serotonin and forces the brain to flood itself with serotonin.
		The drug's effects vary with the individual taking it, the dose and purity, and the environment in which it is taken.
	health.rutgers.edu /brochures/ecstacy.htm (1017 words)

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