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Others are not so sure. Ronald K. Siegel, a psychopharmacologist at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, believes that reactions to MDMA are unpredictable , and not nearly so glowing as some therapists make out. Involuntary teeth clenching, biting of the inside of the cheek, increased sweating, blurred vision and fluctuations in blood pressure have occurred during clinical sessions, he points out. Says Siegel: "People are trying too hard to make this drug into the one that LSD was not -- a drug that is safe and effective and can be freely used and dispensed. MDMA...
...streets of Miami $315 as white powder. Smoking the much cheaper raw coca paste has therefore increasingly become a popular high throughout South America. In Bolivia a matchboxful of paste, enough to make 100 cigarettes, sells for as little as 50 cents. Warns Dr. Ronald Siegel, a psychopharmacologist at the UCLA School of Medicine: "If the price stays low, coca paste could become epidemic here...
Many women consider cocaine an aphrodisiac. Says Ronald Siegel, a psychopharmacologist at the U.C.L.A. School of Medicine: "Women respond more euphorically and ecstatically than males to sex with coke and rate their sexual experiences with cocaine much higher than males do." Others in the drug field, however, say that such a response occurs among highly suggestible people and is mostly a placebo effect...
...U.C.L.A. and elsewhere in which apes were allowed large portions of cocaine, they were found to prefer the drug to food or sexual partners, and would willingly suffer severe electric shocks in exchange for large doses. "It is the most rewarding and reinforcing drug for a primate," says U.C.L.A. Psychopharmacologist Ronald Siegel. "It doesn't matter whether he has a tail or a $100,000 income. Primates like cocaine...
...With higher doses and chronic use, the alertness and exhilaration so prized by coke's connoisseurs quickly turn into darker effects, ranging from insomnia to full-fledged cocaine psychosis. Even a single overdose can cause severe headaches, nausea and convulsions-indeed, total respiratory and cardiovascular collapse. Says U.C.L.A. Psychopharmacologist Ronald Siegel: "Extreme cocaine dosages light a kind of fire in the brain...