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Last Updated March 04, 2002 03:00 PM AEST
Ecstasy linked to long-term brain damage
Source: AAP
Small doses of ecstasy can cause brain damage, with scientists warning the drug has the potential to cause memory loss and psychological problems.
Major health problems could be expected in the future for ecstasy users, University of Adelaide researcher Rod Irvine has found.
Small doses could cause harm and the drug seemed to work on one main type of brain cell, he said.
"For many years it has been known from animal experiments that small doses of ecstasy - even if only taken on a few occasions - can cause severe damage to certain brain cells," Dr Irvine said in a statement.
"More recently, evidence has started to accumulate suggesting that this damage may also occur in humans."
He said the evidence came from brain scans and psychological assessments of ecstasy users.
"If our suspicions are proved correct, it will mean many of our young people will have memory loss or psychological problems in the future."
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ok i just grabbed that off another forum, and this is something that maybe looks a little more genuine compared to a lot of info you see around which gives half the facts. But once again no doseages are given and the info is still restricted, and there are a lot of theories in there with little hard proof. But more or less I think its just stating the obvious
And as someone rightly pointed out on other forum alcohol has been linked to liver disease, alcoholism, kidney damage, brain damage etc... However you choose to live, there will always be consequences, and whos to say what is worse at this point in time...
[ 06 March 2002: Message edited by: ReD L1nE ]
Last Updated March 04, 2002 03:00 PM AEST
Ecstasy linked to long-term brain damage
Source: AAP
Small doses of ecstasy can cause brain damage, with scientists warning the drug has the potential to cause memory loss and psychological problems.
Major health problems could be expected in the future for ecstasy users, University of Adelaide researcher Rod Irvine has found.
Small doses could cause harm and the drug seemed to work on one main type of brain cell, he said.
"For many years it has been known from animal experiments that small doses of ecstasy - even if only taken on a few occasions - can cause severe damage to certain brain cells," Dr Irvine said in a statement.
"More recently, evidence has started to accumulate suggesting that this damage may also occur in humans."
He said the evidence came from brain scans and psychological assessments of ecstasy users.
"If our suspicions are proved correct, it will mean many of our young people will have memory loss or psychological problems in the future."
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ok i just grabbed that off another forum, and this is something that maybe looks a little more genuine compared to a lot of info you see around which gives half the facts. But once again no doseages are given and the info is still restricted, and there are a lot of theories in there with little hard proof. But more or less I think its just stating the obvious
And as someone rightly pointed out on other forum alcohol has been linked to liver disease, alcoholism, kidney damage, brain damage etc... However you choose to live, there will always be consequences, and whos to say what is worse at this point in time...
[ 06 March 2002: Message edited by: ReD L1nE ]