We aim to present the latest and most accurate information available. We
also believe it is best to warn people of possible effects, rather than
make no comment until possible effects have been proven beyond any doubt.
On this basis there is a few things that need to be taken into
consideration about the nature of research. There are many ethical issues
involved in using human studies with illicit substances. It is therefore
common with research involving illicit drugs to extend theories based
animal research to the probable implications for humans. Another source of
information comes from people using illicit substances. Relatively new
substances such as ecstasy are often based in likely long term outcomes
rather than known outcomes. This is simply because in order to identify
long term effects, people need to have been using a substance for many
years, or many years have lapsed since they used in order to gain an
insight into what happens from using a particular illicit substance. Only
now has ecstasy use been occurring long enough for research to be able to
give us clearer indications of the effects of ecstasy use. However, there
is still much to learn about ecstasy and the effects of use both short term
and long term. As evidence evolves or changes, we try to reflex this by
amending our information to be consistent with current research.
We list kidney failure under immediate effects as some people have been
identified as suffering kidney failure due to hyperthermia ( dangerously
high body temperature). Drugs & Drug Abuse 3ed, 1998, pg 341. There are
numerous other articles and books that cover this topic. Our library
database can be searched at
www.adf.org.au/library There are also some
great sites to look at such as
www.erowid.org
I hope this has been of some help to you
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