Ecstasy abuse
Ecstasy is a typical party drug, aimed at the night club/party market. Sleep is literally driven out of the body. Ecstasy is available in pills, in various colours and shapes, sometimes capsules or powders. If you have the real Ecstasy, it contains MDMA (3, 4 – methylenedioxymethamphetamine).
Ecstasy stimulates the release of certain substances in the brains, which changes your mood and your energy level is increased. What you want to achieve with Ecstasy is a happy, cheerful, bright and careless feeling. There is a different experience of music and colour, need for intimacy and contact, a sense of belonging and meaning in the form of sex.
Because inhibitions disappear for a few hours, the world seems a lot better. The effects of Ecstasy start about half an hour to one hour after ingestion and lasts for about five hours. In young, slender women and men, the effect is stronger. Because you never know what exactly is in your ecstasy pill, the dangers of Ecstasy are quite high.
Dangers and risks of Ecstasy
The dangers of Ecstasy include the following:
- Dry mouth and throat
- Stiff feeling in the jaws and limbs
- Gnashing of teeth and chewing on tongue and cheek
- Increased body temperature and heart rate
- Sweating and dangerous overheating
- Nausea
- Vomiting at times
- Dehydration
- Headache
- Dizziness
- Distress
- Loss of coordination
- Panic attacks
- Liver inflammation and liver failure
- Visual hallucinations
- Psychoses
- Hypertension
- Memory loss
- Nervousness
- Anxiety
- Impaired concentration
- Water intoxication and sexual failure
The following days are just as challenging:
- Apathy
- depression
- emptiness
- depression
- moody nature
- sleep disorders
- anxiety and susceptibility to infections
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The very high success statistics and exclusive treatment centres have brought patients into this centre from all over the world
