CONSEQUENCES OF USING ECSTASY

	“Rave parties are ok so long as you don’t take ecstasy. But as soon as you start, you think people who advise you to stop are idiots. You start to believe you have found something great and others must not try to tell you the contrary. When you start liking ecstasy, it’s too late, you’re sunk.” Pat, drug addict(1)

A study by the Institute for Prevention of Alcoholism and Other Addictions in Switzerland found that 55% of those who use ecstasy suffer some negative consequence. These side effects included:

55% feeling of losing control

50% anguish, fear

49% fatigue and bad mood

45% depression, sadness

36% problems with family, friends, spouse or others

33% disagreeable hallucinations

32% anguish or paranoia

24% sick feeling, fainting

15% problems at work or at school

8% problems with the police