MDMA (and mdma analogues) have done more damage to people than codeine has, as well as xanax.
Tell that to all the long term oxycodone, oxymorphone, morphine, hydrocodone, xanax, klonopin, and vallium addicts......
Seriously... I used my fair share of MDMA and while i didn't exactly moderate myself as well as i should have it never got crazy out of hand and i saw the effects it was having and i stopped....
I can say i have at least 5 members of my family alone addicted to the aformentioned legal prescription narcotics. I have watched one of them have a seizure due to benzo withdarawl, and not like a little twitch of a seizure, like full blown on the floor shaking uncontrolably lets call an ambulance type deal. Still on the pills as well, no sign of any desire to quit, its going to kill her one of these days. Thats also to say i have also seen this person pass out on their dinner plate, pass out in bed holding cigarettes, fall down stairs, its like something out of Intervention....
I have watched a sibling deal with oxycodone addiction that lead to heroin use. Still dealing with it....
That being said, i have around 5 close family members who are very much addicts to these sorts of things, probably a total of 10 off the top of my head if you count extended family. Most of them have dealt with DUIs, rehab, withdrawl, full blown addict tendencies.
I have talked with hundreds of people who have done their share of ecstasy and most of them are not addicts, most of them are in control of themselves, and if you ask them to look back on the their use in retrospect most of them will say they don't regret a thing....
So just keep telling yourself that its ok to eat those benzos, 10 years down the road when you decide to take a break and you have a full blown seizure and wake up to paramedics surrounding you, it will be too late to go back on that mentality....