While the sometimes deadly effects of GHB are scary enough to Timothy Condon, associate director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, he is more concerned about ecstasy. A small faction of psychotherapists who prescribed MDMA before it was outlawed in the mid-1980s has long argued that there is no proof that ecstasy is harmful. But the latest research shows otherwise, Condon said. Brain imaging research at Johns Hopkins University shows that ecstasy damages brain cells that produce serotonin. Heavy ecstasy users also had memory problems that persisted for at least two weeks after they stopped using the drug, according to a study.
Immediate effects are dehydration.
Naples said some parents and educators have never heard of ecstasy. Parents should notice differences in their children's behavior, Naples said, and they should make a trusting relationship with their teenagers a priority. One Wellington, Fla., teen said he has been doing ecstasy for the past three years and his parents are oblivious. Fort Lauderdale, Fla. This GHB frenzy is an excellent example of the idiocy of the anti drug wierdness.