Daily Mail -Ecstasy tablets ...and taking just ten can cause brain damage

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Ecstasy tablets are far more harmful than previously thought - and taking just ten can cause brain damage

By FIONA MACRAE
PUBLISHED: 00:22, 26 July 2012

With reader comments

  • Just one pill a month can cause memory loss
  • Symptoms similar to dementia
  • MDMA far more damaging than thought
Taking ecstasy – even in relatively small amounts – can damage memory, scientists have warned. Worryingly, the memory lapses are similar to those that occur in the early onset of dementia. Even ten pills a year – less than one a month – caused problems, says the journal Addiction. Ecstasy, also known by its chemical name MDMA, is a Class A drug. But there are disagreements over how dangerous it is.

Government chief drugs advisor Professor David Nutt was fired three years ago after claiming taking ecstasy is no more dangerous than riding a horse. Although the drug’s effects on memory have been studied before, results have been muddied by the possibility that users already had memory problems. To avoid this, researchers from the University of Cologne focused on young people who had tried the drug in the past and expected to use it more in future. They were tested on their memory, learning, brain processing speed and attention at the start of the study and a year on. At the end of a year, 23 had become regular ecstasy users, having taken between ten and 62 ecstasy pills since the start of the study. Those who had become regular users showed a clear deterioration in episodic memory in comparison with the others.
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'When you stop using it, as most people do, things go back to the way they were.'
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...-thought--taking-just-cause-brain-damage.html
 
citizen cained said:
What they should do now is find out if stopping use reverses the effect however, if the effect is reversible, I doubt that will be published in the DM
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She said: ‘The general agreement that is emerging about ecstasy is that while you are using the drug, you might expect a very subtle memory impairment but it’s probably not significant in the real world.

‘When you stop using it, as most people do, things go back to the way they were.’
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They just put it right at the end of the article where they think no one will read it.
 
where was this study carried out? if it was in the US i bet half the 'pills' were pipes anyway and not MDMA.
 
What ridiculous hyperbole... "symptoms similar to dementia?" Why do people automatically believe this kind of shit?
 
Its articles just like this that are dumbing down and brainwashing people. So many people i know still believe that whole "it burns holes in your brain" bullshit. Or if you take acid so many times your legally insane. Ill fight tooth and nail with people like that. When i give them an actually somewhat scientific answer they just look at me like.......:? 8( Then ill point them in the direction of this site and others like it but there to ignorant to read the truth for themselves. They just, like most people, just listen to what the media jams down their throats
 
Out of all the countless psychotropic substances I've ingested, very few do I not regret using. MDMA is one of them. Thinking back, when I weigh the positives with the negatives just like Dr. Phil, it's had a hugely positive impact in my life. Funny thing, I've suspected for a few years now that it fucks with my memory. Why is that such big news though? Booze has been known for decades to cause long term brain damage in the form of cognitive and memory impairment. Same goes with many Rx drugs.
 
The Daily Mail - reading just ten articles can cause brain damage.

And temporary memory impairment is not a good thing, but it means we have to educate people, not make the chemical illegal... As with ro4eva, I feel that MDMA has brought me insight and changed my life for the better. Personally, I never noticed any impairment, but then again I have only experienced MDMA 3 times in these past 25 years...

Watching TV is associated with significant risk of cognitive impairment. Should we ban TV?
 
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