What we've found is with any type of amphetamine it brings anxiety, tension, clenching and grinding. And people who use a lot of drugs don't usually put dental hygiene as a top priority. Yet in the United States it appears that no formal studies have explored just how many Ecstasy users are wearing their teeth down to stumps. Most studies and press releases briefly cite some of the suspected physical effects of the drug, which include muscle tension, involuntary teeth clenching, nausea, blurred vision, faintness, chills and sweating. Doctors say MDMA-related deaths at raves have occurred due to E's stimulant effects combined with hot, crowded dance halls, leading to dehydration, hyperthermia, and heart or kidney failure.
Ecstasy is usually a mixture of chemicals rolled up in one pill.
Christine is right. The number of E-related deaths in the United States is minuscule compared with those caused by more socially acceptable, legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco. But for all of the talk about America's war on drugs, few studies seem to have taken Ecstasy users' anecdotal tales into account while researching its effects. Most just say research, mainly conducted on lab rats and monkeys, indicates some kind of long-term brain damage. The first time I didn't use a pacifier, I definitely remembered it the next time.