Word: mdma
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...will bug them. Tonight they hope to talk about Shane's cancer, a topic they have mostly avoided for years. It has eaten away at their marriage just as it corrodes his kidney. A friend has recommended that they take ecstasy, except he calls it MDMA and says therapists used it 20 years ago to get people to discuss difficult topics. And, in fact, after tonight, Sue and Shane will open up, and Sue will come to believe MDMA is prolonging her marriage--and perhaps Shane's life...
Although research is being conducted as we speak, a few things about the after effects of ecstasy (MDMA) seem well supported. Primarily, MDMA kills brain cells each and every time it is used. Moreover, the seats of memory (both short and long term) are affected for significant amounts of time (sometimes as long as seven years). Furthermore, there seems to be marked increases in various psychological disorders, including acute and chronic depression and schizophrenia...
...upon us again? Partly because the debate about MDMA's harmfulness has never been resolved. Johns Hopkins neurologist George Ricaurte has concluded in several animal studies and one human study that MDMA can damage a particular group of the brain's nerve cells. But he wants more research. Last week Ricaurte said his work has never shown that the damage to the affected cells has any visible effect on "the vast majority of people who have experimented with MDMA." The debate has now found its way onto the Web, where the old therapist crowd behind MDMA has become active...