Many of the Rohypnol cases are never reported because of the dramatic loss of memory. Many cases are also overlooked because of the difficulty of testing for this drug. The pills are often imprinted with animals. Recent research links Ecstasy use to long-term damage to those parts of the brain critical to thought, memory, and pleasure. The main effects are depression, memory loss, muscle tension, involuntary teeth clenching, insomnia, and increases in heart rate and blood pressure.
Butterflies are often the symbol for Ecstasy.
It is brought to raves in Skittles bags, Pez containers, rolled up in Tootsie rolls, and often used with Vicks inhalers with face masks to intensify the high. Proponents say it makes them happy and want to touch and feel. Also very popular in the rave scene, it puts the victim in a frozen paralyzed, movable, pliable state where they can t control themselves. It produces pleasant dream-like states, vivid imagery, hallucinations and extreme delirium. Here again, this ability to induce a lack of awareness to the environment is the effect sexual abusers want.