Ecstasy, also known as MDMA, is a club drug that is extremely popular amongst high school and college students. Because club drugs can enhance enjoyment from touch they are used to increase intimacy and, worse, in rape situations. They are also used to stimulate psychedelic effects and to energize the user for the night. These designer drugs lead to the deaths of multiple people each year. Club drugs are created to induce a stimulant and psychedelic effect; however, these sensations are definitely not worth the addictive and disabling effects they may cause.
MDMA is a chemical component that is used in many club drugs, but it can also be a drug used solely by itself in a pure form. The drugs that contain this chemical are popular among teens and other adolescents or other young adults in night clubs, parties, or dances (“Club Drugs”). The typical MDMA user is changing, as it has spread from the night club community to popularity among the general public. These club drugs are primarily used by the white youth, but the varieties of people using these drugs are expanding (“The Recreational Use of Ecstasy Is Harmful”).
In the early 1900s MDMA was developed in Germany to synthesize other pharmaceuticals. Virtually dormant until 1953, MDMA was researched--and used--by a former pesticide chemist named Alexander Shulgin. Shulgin was on a quest for the ideal psychoactive drug but was frustrated by the regulations and required trials mandated before a medication could be produced; he quit working on this drug because of these restrictions(“History of Ecstasy (MDMA)”). Some psychiartrics began using MDMA during the 1970’s as a psychotherapeutic tool, even the the drug had never recieved formal clinical trials or go...
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...t be able to refuse or defend against sexual assault. Furthermore, drugged individuals may not have recollection what happened. While women are most often targeted with these drugs, they can be used on men too (“Club Drugs Can Be Used to Facilitate Rape”).
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In brief, while ecstasy at one point may have been a facilitator in the field of psychology between therapists and patients, it soon became a facilitator in society between recreational users and death. Ever since ecstasy was introduced to the curious public back in the 1960's, it has become a popular preference among drug addicts. Till this day, teenagers all over the world are being pressured into experimenting with MDMA leading them to a life controlled and regulated by not only ecstasy but other various drugs as well. It is actually quite interesting to see what lengths society will go to in order to attain and maintain a sense of happiness and ecstasy.
The sound of music can fulfil someone's ears with the rhythm of the beat or the sweet tone of the melody. Some people enjoy music with a little more “experience.” Rock, rap, and heavy metal are examples of music genres that has a reputation of using drugs to enhance the experience of the music. One other common music genre that has a reputation of drugs is EDM. Electronic Dance Music. It is a type of music typically created by using electronic devices, like a laptop, generated by a person with some talent. This music genre is known for it’s “club drugs” like ecstasy, methanamine, or magic mushrooms. (“CRC Health”) Some people use drugs at raves to “enhance” the experience and also people have tried or are trying to push the usage of drugs at rave to a certain that you can take. Many people want more security checks at raves so they can reduce the injuries and deaths at raves.
Recently there have been advanced studies into the use of MDMA to help treat PTSD. MDMA is the purest form ...
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Credibility material: Its intake results in adverse medical conditions that are further exalted by its addiction properties that ensure a continued intake of the substance. The drug can be abused through multiple means and is medically recorded to produce short-term joy, energy , and other effects such as increased heart rate and blood pressure. This ultimately results in numerous psychiatric and social problems; factors that played a major role in its illegalization after multiple and widespread cases of its effects were reported in the country during the 1900s. In addition to this, the drug results in immediate euphoric effect, a property which the National Institute of Drug Abuse (2010) attributes to be the root cause for its increased po...
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In a world where mental illnesses like PTSD, depression, and autism are becoming more and more prevalent, MDMA, or “Ecstasy” is just the mental boost that someone needs and is illegally being dealt to patients while in therapy or counseling. The theory is that MDMA can raise “happiness levels” by forcing the brain to release serotonin and dopamine at the same time, resulting in intense euphoria and “ego softening” (Errowid). Some other side effects of MDMA can include feelings of inner peace, increase in social bonding, and an increase in ability to communicate. Some of the less positive side effects can be eye wiggling, increased heart rate, and dehydration. All of which, are quite manageable and not too noticeable. Sufferers of social anxiety and depression could greatly benefit from MDMA, as it can break down inner boundaries and increase the need to be around other people. A grou...
Even the most clueless among us know about “ecstasy” today; thanks to news and the media who have labeled it a “thrill pill” and “love drug,” and proclaimed it America’s newest “drug problem.” Although many therapists are praising it, researchers are also knocking it. All together, they have found that ecstasy, a drug similar to MDMA, has short and long term effects on the brain that vary from person to person.
Drugs are used to escape the real and move into the surreal world of one’s own imaginations, where the pain is gone and one believes one can be happy. People look on their life, their world, their own reality, and feel sickened by the uncaringly blunt vision. Those too weak to stand up to this hard life seek their escape. They believe this escape may be found in chemicals that can alter the mind, placing a delusional peace in the place of their own depression: “Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly halucinant,” (52). They do this with alcohol, acid, crack, cocaine, heroine, opium, even marijuana for the commoner economy. These people would rather hide behind the haze than deal with real problems. “...A gramme is better than a damn.” (55).
Drug in the American Society is a book written by Eric Goode. This book, as the title indicates, is about drugs in the American Society. It is especially about the misuse of most drugs, licit or illicit, such us alcohol, marijuana and more. The author wrote this book to give an explanation of the use of different drugs. He wrote a first edition and decided to write this second edition due to critic and also as he mentioned in the preface “there are several reason for these changes. First, the reality of the drug scene has changed substantially in the past dozen or so years. Second much more information has been accumulated about drug use. And third, I’m not the same person I was in 1972.”(vii). The main idea of this book is to inform readers about drugs and their reality. In the book, Goode argued that the effect of a drug is dependent on the societal context in which it is taken. Thus, in one society a particular drug may be a depressant, and in another it may be a stimulant.
Exposure and Outcome Rape can ruin your life. The sexually violent act is associated with a long list of public health concerns, including disease, unwanted pregnancy, physical trauma, mental and emotional suffering, and death. While rape can be simply defined as sex without consent, the impact rape has on society is complex. Victims are often stigmatized. They feel ashamed, weak, and at fault.
The electronic dance music (EDM) started in Ibiza Island and spread all over the world. Young people between the age of 18 and 35 years participate actively in the functions offered by the rave and clubs (Miller et al. 639). In most of the functions, the youths attend in groups making them vulnerable to peer pressure, where they are encouraged to do act collectively. As a result, friends introduce each other in the usage of illegal substance that is always available in the clubs and bars. As the visitors dance to the music, some of them indulge in the use of the drugs in a bid to enjoy their moments. The use of alcohol and illegal drugs is associated with the frequency of visiting clubs and bars (Mooney, Linda, Knox and Schacht 93). As individuals visit the clubs more often, they are tempted to try new forms of entertainment. Additionally, the use of alcohol affects their decision making as they easily give in to temptations from their peers (Henderson, and Stacy
The research emphasizes the tension in the fields of psychiatry and psychotherapy between those who are in favor of using Ecstasy as a therapeutic drug, and those who are concerned about the drug’s damaging effects. In addition, the purpose of this research was to define the impact of Ecstasy on brain function. In fact, it argues that Ecstasy usage is associated with a chronic change in brain function. FMRI was used to examine brain activation during visual stimulation, in young Ecstasy user ages 18-35, and in subjects who had not previously used Ecstasy. Ecstasy users were found to have an increased brain activation in three brain areas associated with visual processing. Also, they presented loss
Ecstasy or “E” or “molly” all share a common root, MDMA. Ecstasy is a hallucinogenic drug which can greatly affect one’s mind. The use of Ecstasy throughout the world has greatly increased over the years due to the easiness of obtaining it. However, Ecstasy is more common in one country rather than the rest. In Australia, Ecstasy is the highest abused illicit drug in the country; Ecstasy greatly affects their economy, their population and their public policies.
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