Santa Clara County launches anti-Ecstasy campaign

[slimvictor]

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. -- In an effort to discourage teens and young adults in Santa Clara County from taking the drug Ecstasy, officials have launched a countywide Ecstasy prevention initiative and unveiled a documentary film about the dangers of the drug.

Officials said that the initiative is in response to a growing "epidemic" of Ecstasy drug use among the county's youth.

A survey of 1,850 students in Santa Clara County found that as many as one in four teens have tried the drug at least once.

"Many teens think it's just a feel good drug that removes their inhibitions," Supervisor Liz Kniss said. Kniss is chair of the Board of Supervisors' Health and Hospital Committee. "The Ecstasy initiative is a call to action to 'spread the word' to all youth, parents, schools and community members that Ecstasy is dangerous and deadly."

Long-term memory deficit, concentration problems, depression and anxiety have all been linked to long-term Ecstasy use, according to the county and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

County officials said that in 2001 there were 100 Ecstasy-related deaths in the U.S., and that number reached more than 500 deaths in 2010.

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[23536]

County officials said that in 2001 there were 100 Ecstasy-related deaths in the U.S., and that number reached more than 500 deaths in 2010.

say what?

 

[NeighborhoodThreat]

Yeah I'd like to see them dig up a source for those numbers...

 

[Zapa]

I think this could be the number of all Ecstasy related deaths in the US since it first appeared on the street, most (if not all) of them involving pills with no MDMA at all.

 

[slimvictor]

^ I am not so worried about whether they contained MDMA, but rather what else they contained.
But I would guess that you are right.

Too bad MDMA is illegal. That is why people end up buying and taking "ecstasy" without knowing what it is, and it is why some people die.
If MDMA were legal, the number of deaths would be reduced radically - possibly even to zero, if there were solid education provided to people, instead of this propaganda shit that passes for education.

 

[5HTguy]

Meanwhile Santa Clara County workers are passing out "symbolic baskets of hope" to the Board of Supervisors in hopes that the county will fix its budget problems.

http://www.seiu521.org/2011/workers-offer-baskets-of-hope-to-santa-clara-co-s-budget-woes/

Good thing the anti-ecstasy campaign was spared the budget axe. 8)

 

[nickels]

I'm pretty sure the government has been taken over by evil aliens.

 

[Biovail]

Blah blah blah bullshit sensationalized propaganda blah blah.

I can go kill myself eating rat poison, and if I "thought" it was MDMA I was buying, it would be considered an ecstasy related death.

Fuck these people.