Ecstasy can cause brain damage
Beneath the momentary pleasures offered ecstasy pills turned out to have an impact that can cause brain damage. Researchers from Australia have even found Ecstasy pills are often mixed with various other types of drugs so that the impact of the damage worse.
This latest study mentions the equally harmful ecstasy user’s greater brain damage. “Research is seen in human or animal toxicity experiments using a single drug. Of course the impact is more severe if the medicine was mixed with various other medications,” said Dr.Thomas Newton, a professor at Baylor College of Medicine.
Research conducted on 56 people who had consumed ecstasy at least 5 times before. Then they were asked to consume ecstasy one more time. The researchers then collected samples and measured levels of MDMA pills, chemicals in the ecstasy of the respondent’s blood samples every 5 hours after they drank ecstasy.
In some people, the amount of MDMA in the body they have reached levels that could be dangerous or deadly to primates. The researchers also found that only some ecstasy pills containing MDMA entirely. The rest is metampetamine or substance containing a chemical that is similar to MDMA. There are even pills that contain no MDMA at all.
“Eating some ecstasy pills will increase the concentration of harmful substances in the blood and this can be dangerous. This is because taking just one pill, the concentration of MDMA in the blood continues to rise for 5 hours,” said Dr.Rod Irvine, chairman of the study.
MDMA levels are too high will cause damage to brain cells in animal experiments. Yet all the respondents in this study are not reported experiencing health problems.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Ecstasy can interfere with heart rate, body temperature regulation and brain damage.
