. Increases in heart rate and blood pressure are a special risk for people with circulatory or heart disease. And though users see only the positives of the drug or what they believe is, they need to open their eyes and believe death is definitely a factor.Many of the effects with Ecstasy use are similar to those found with the use of amphetamines and cocaine. Some of these risks are psychological difficulties, including; confusion, depression, sleep disorders, drug addiction, anxiety, and paranoia. Even after weeks of the initial taking of the drug, psychotic episodes do reoccur. During the drug session is the most dangerous point. Vomiting, dizziness, and especially overheating will kill the person. Ecstasy severely dehydrates the body and while users believe they are having fun and feeling great, in actuality they’re dying inside. Recent research findings have linked Ecstasy use to long-term damage to those parts of the brain critical to thought and memory. Continual usage of the drug causes the long-term memory nerve to shrink and the brain starts to hemorrhage, slowly bleeding to death. I’ve recently watched a feature story on MTV about a twenty-two year old girl who told her story about abusing Ecstasy. She used Ecstasy for four years and finally stopped when it was already too late. Finally she visited a doctor who ran a CAT scan on her because of her complaint of headaches. The results lead to the discovery that her Ecstasy usage had ended in the drug deteriorating her skull and brain so badly that in the x-ray, there were actual holes that could be seen. It left large indentions throughout her brain where areas of memory were and she now has a brain equivalent to one of a sixty-year-old person who has suffered multiple strokes.If only there was such a power to open up everyone’s eyes to the seriousness of this drug. It should be forever reddened just as other drugs should also be. Ecstasy may be...
