Ecstasy Abuse

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Article 1

C) Source of Article: Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

Title of Article: Navy Medicine Steps Up to Help Prevent Ecstasy Abuse

A) Talks about how the military is not protected by ecstasy abuse. They may have a zero tolerance mentality about it but that still does not stop people from accessing it. The Navy found a medicine that makes hiding of having the trace of ecstasy on a person harder to hide. They found a better way to detect ecstasy with a certain drug exam that is ahead of technology. Instead if a normal test for amphetamines they found a new agent that can even trace the smallest amount of ecstasy on a person system. This medicine has been tested for the past two years and was tested again before they sent out the troops to go to Afghanistan. Ecstasy symptoms can be decreased facility to regulate sleep and emotions, as well as increase changes in hear attack, stroke and possibility of death. Hopefully this will shorten the amount of people using drugs like ecstasy in any military branch while on task.

B) The authors idea with writing this article is that ecstasy abuse will be eliminated from all military branches. This idea is backed up with what he said about the testing results, “Navy Medicine also tested the product at the Navy Drug Screening Lab in Jacksonville, Fla., before rolling it out to the troops”. This comment by the author can be interpreted as successful results. Another of the author’s ideas or comments is that he claims to say that ecstasy abuse is rising in all over the country, and that the military should get more involved to stop it. The military is improving ecstasy testing on humans. “Although the Navy maintains a zero-tolerance position on drug abuse”, this means they are doing their best to stop drug abuse, and they are improving testing methods.

Article 2

C) Source of Article: Naval Media Center and Bureau of Naval Personnel

Title of Article: From Ecstasy to Agony

Author: Capt. John Jemionek and Jo1 Joseph

Date: Unknown

A) He gives some of the street names for ecstasy and he calls it the club drug mostly because it is used at raves and such parties. Also goes on to call it the “safe drug”. Then even more he gets an in depth look of how the drugs looks and that it comes in a capsule about the size of an aspirin in po...

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...zing on increased demand for the drug in the United States. Authorities are especially concerned about the role of organized crime in Ecstasy trafficking. Russian mafias have recently forged relationships with European traffickers and begun to dominate the global Ecstasy trade. The profit potential of Ecstasy is huge for such traffickers. Ecstasy tablets can be bought in Amsterdam for as little as 50 cents to $2 each.

B) In this article the writer talks about the urgency that our grate nation has over this simple deadly looking pill. He gives explicit detail in his believed and has insight information about the drug trafficking ways. By some sort f thought the writer believes that the drugs are sponsoring terrorism and that people in the Middle East and Russia use this money to buy weapons. He also talks about the Columbians trafficking ecstasy to the United States. Says that our nation is in great fear of this drug and what it can cause to our society. The writer believes that these drugs are going destroy America little by little by destroying the youth of America. Then with this they can invade the nation and destroy everything that we have built.

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