The kids are using it at house parties and weekend parties. The fact of the matter is that this drug is a way of life here. It's Long Island. It's here, you're bored. Most people do whatever's around, said a class of 2000 graduate of Valley Stream Central High.
E is a small pill often stamped with a manufacturer's logo.
It lowers inhibitions. It produces euphoria and heightened sensual awareness, with few immediate side effects other than potentially dangerous dehydration evidenced by overheating and a terrific thirst. In the 1970s, some psychiatrists used it to get patients to loosen up, but it was outlawed in 1985 after it started appearing in nightclubs. Many kids, rarely hearing reports of death or serious overdoses from MDMA alone, think the drug is harmless. Regardless of the perception, a drug being sold as ecstasy killed at least six people in Florida this summer.