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Over the past 30 years ecstasy has become one of the world's most notorious drugs. No other illegal substance has had the same effect on fashion, music and how we party. This film follows two recreational ecstasy users over one night and, using computer graphics, journeys inside the body and the brain to explore how the drug creates its highs and its lows. With access to cutting edge research at the University of Chicago we find out how ecstasy creates empathy in the user and how this could one day lead to the drug being used as a life saving prescription medicine for use in therapy. Whilst ecstasy is the perfect high for some, there are those for whom ecstasy is agony - this film tells their story too: a young woman whose use of the drug ended her up in the psychiatric ward, a 17-year-old whose ecstasy use landed her in a hospital, and a mother whose son died from overheating after taking ecstasy. Killer chemical or the ultimate feel good high, this is the inside story of how ecstasy works.

Read more: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/drugged/5508/Overview#ixzz1B0Am2cLl

2-Night Special
Starts JAN 16 on Nation Geographic Channel
 
Definitiely will keep an eye out for this, links to the video would be greatly appreciated once they're released as some of us sadly don't have thy foxtel =(
 
I'm sure it will be available streaming or the good old pirate way. While the usual Nat geo about lions or volcanoes probably won't end up as a torrent, I'm sure this one will. Everyone loves a doco about drugs whether you use them or not xD
 
These type of documentaries get me pretty down at how shitty the scene is in Australia at the moment - even the good pills don't stack up to well.

Ecstasy Rising and to a lesser extent Small town ecstasy are also worth tracking down.
 
I disagree with your first statement. LSD has had the biggest effect on society in terms of fashion, music, partying and overall social consciousness. To this day it is still affecting all of the above and is now more than ever growing in popularity and curiosity. My 2c
 
I had a look at the story on the nat geo site. I don't understand what the media/ government preoccupation is with street names. The nat geo site has a 14 question drug street name quiz. How do people come up with these? Surely they're not real street names. Are street names common internationally? Amongst people I know, marijuana is weed or pot, ecstasy is e or pills, etc etc... Nothing crazy.

If you used names on the Australian govt propaganda site, if you asked a dealer for "green" (one of their street names for ketamine) I'm pretty sure you'd end up with weed. Does anyone actually call ice shad, tina or oxblood? Does anyone actually call speed eve, snow or gas? They have "point" on there as a street name for speed... LOL.

Why is it such a big feature? and do people actually use these names?

Surely a 14 question quiz on the effects would be more useful! Argh!
 
ooh.shiny said:
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If you used names on the Australian govt propaganda site, if you asked a dealer for "green" (one of their street names for ketamine) I'm pretty sure you'd end up with weed. Does anyone actually call ice shad, tina or oxblood? Does anyone actually call speed eve, snow or gas? They have "point" on there as a street name for speed... LOL. ...
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Haha that is a bit of a joke! I've heard speed called gas in Brisbane a few times before, none of the others though. You'd think they'd work what a point was too; a measurement and not slang for a specific substance 8)

Thanks for the link Iconoclast :)
 
Thanks for letting us know about this! I'm recording it, as well as the following weeks covering ecstacy, and cannabis.....should be interesting..
 
ooh.shiny as far as I am aware 'gas' is a very common term to refer to 'speed', generally in 'base' form, in certain regions of Australia, particularly NSW and QLD.

If you meant to say 'shard' as opposed to 'shad', that is probably the most commonly used term among ice users I know to refer to ice. Another possible mis spell is 'shab', which although less common I have certainly heard used by drug users for many years. Tina is also common in certain circles. Snow seems to typically refer to cocaine, but I have occasionally heard 'speed' referred to as 'snow', it is pretty common for bongs laced with speed to be called 'snow cones'.

I definately agree that the media seems to use some odd and probably made up slang quite frequently, but the fact you have questioned numerous slang terms I have found to be common actually makes me wonder if the media make up less than it seems, and regional slang can just vary that considerably. Although I do have to say I would be very surprised if ketamine has ever been referred to as 'green' LOL.
 
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Hmm, very interesting, drug_mentor. I've definitely heard 'shard' used for meth. I've heard snow for speed, but as you said, it's more commonly coke. The things I usually hear in Melbourne for speed are whizz, gear (strange, but I hear it a lot), louie/louis (spelling I'm unsure of) and that's mostly it. Might also have something to do with the fact I don't seek it out.
 
In sydney some of the terms you used above are quite common...
Speed - Gas, Gear, Goey
Whenever i hear people talk about it, it's usually one of those names. Quite weird that different parts of Australia have different terms for drugs. Its not really that far apart that it should be uncommon for most of the names to be wide spread, maybe its just me though :)
 
belarki said:
Haha that is a bit of a joke! I've heard speed called gas in Brisbane a few times before, none of the others though. You'd think they'd work what a point was too; a measurement and not slang for a specific substance 8)

Thanks for the link Iconoclast :)
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Gas, go-ey (geddit? Gooey? Go-ey?) are common here in Bris. Oxblood was a type of speed that was getting around a while back, it was blood-red. Really odd, but potent.
 
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