of the brain. Damages to serotonin transmitters can cause faults in important human responses such as aggression, memory, emotion, sleep and pain. Law officials favor higher regulation and overall awareness of ecstasy and have made attempts to seize the drug before it is distributed. Drug busts have become more prevalent in customs at the United States border. In December of 1999 the U.S. Customs Service discovered 100 lbs. of ecstasy shipped from France to the FedEx headquarters in Memphis. The agents found 1.2 million tablets, which were worth 30 million dollars.() Many other drug busts have occurred, but the busts have had little effect on the ecstasy problem, because each year the statistics on the number of ecstasy users rises. The next question society must face is, how do we prevent our youth from attending all-night parties and using club drugs? The parents need to talk to their children about potential drug use and find out how their children feel about ecstasy. Once the parents become informed about ecstasy society can better teach resistance from drug and social pressures. Also many organizations have been designed to inform the public of club drugs, such as ecstasy, and to take a stance to try and prevent future use. For example, NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) passed out 330,000 free informative postcards to major cities nation wide. The postcards featured the human brain and the severity of the difference before and after the use of ecstasy(). Drugs and alcohol continually cause national problems, but as long as individuals and national organizations attempt to prevent future abuse the problems will diminish. It also is important to look at the locations where the density of the drug problem exists. If activities at all-night rave clubs are better restricted the use of ecstasy also may not be used as heavily. The use of ecstasy and the attendance at rave clubs threats the youth who are the essence of the future so...
