ECSTASY : Dangerous Drug?

[Saunders 5]. Without serotonin, or if you don't have enough it cannot regulate mood, sleep, pain, emotion, appetite, and other behaviors as well. Without a lot of serotonin the user may experience persistent behavioral effects. "Ecstasy damages brain cells by causing the nerve branches and nerve endings to degenerate. These cells then re-grow abnormally, failing to re-connect to some brain or connecting elsewhere to the wrong areas." ["Ecstasy Causes Brain Damage"]. MDMA in humans, mean that they also have persistent memory problems. Ecstasy also can make one's nerve endings deteriorate. Cases of Parkinson's disease have been found in young people around thirty. Since Parkinson's disease usually would show up in 50-60 year olds, this shows that Methylenedioxymethaphetamine might have a link to the problem. ["Ecstasy Users Get All Shook Up"] The brain relies on neurotransmitters to communicate through the brain. Since Ecstasy kills neurotransmitters it might make the user over a time get physical tremors, and loss of certain brain functions.
             Second, Ecstasy heats the body to "danger levels." 108 degrees Fahrenheit and above are these levels. A well-known cause of death by ecstasy, and probably one of the most common is heatstroke. [Saunders] Because ecstasy is most commonly used at raves, there is an insufficiency of water there to hydrate the bodies of the "drug users." This means that since there isn't water or if there is it isn't enough to make the body cool down. Normally people use chilled water, or go to a cooler spot to cool themselves down. But when on Methylenedioxymethaphetamine they make no attempt to lower their body temperature [Saunders]. With MDMA, it is five times less toxic in isolated rooms and places, then crowded rooms and places. Which explains one reason why "ravers" die of heat exhaustion. At raves there are crowded floors of heat, which raises the body temperature, and then there is the fact that one is moving around a lot making the heart pump more blood will also make the body temperature rise.