- Impaired judgment
- False sense of affection
- Confusion
- Depression
- Sleep problems
- Severe anxiety
- Paranoia
- Drug cravings
- Muscle tension
- Faintness and chills or swelling
- Involuntary teeth clenching
- Blurred vision
- Nausea
SHORT-TERM EFFECTS OF ECSTASY
Long-term effects of Ecstasy (MDMA)
- Long-lasting brain damage affecting thought and memory
- Damage to portions of the brain that regulate critical functions such as learning, sleep and emotion
- It is as if the brain switchboard was torn apart, then rewired backwards
- Degenerated nerve branches and nerve endings
- Depression, anxiety, memory loss
- Kidney failure
- Hemorrhaging
- Psychosis
- Cardiovascular1 collapse
- Convulsions
- Death
- 1. cardiovascular: related to both the heart and blood vessels.
REFERENCES
- Drug Enforcement Administration
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Drug Policy Information Clearinghouse
- “Club Drugs Facts & Figures,” Office of National Drug Control Policy
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime World Report 2008
- Center for Substance Abuse Research
- British Medical Journal
- National Institutes of Health
- Department of Health (UK)
- 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health
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