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Ecstasy: a real catastrophe!
The brain cannot really tolerate ecstasy, even in small doses! Dutch researchers have discovered that the slightest dose of this narcotic can produce irreversible brain damage. A word to the wise…
Dr Maartje de Win and his team at the University of Amsterdam, asked some 188 young volunteers who had never touched this drug but had decided to try it, to do psychometric tests. Their brains were monitored by imaging techniques as they did the tests.
The researchers then compared their observations with those arising from a second series of tests conducted on the same cohort, this time after using ecstasy. The result was “from the first time the drug is taken, we noticed a lowering of blood circulation in some parts of the brain”, say the authors. Worse still, “a change in the structure of brain cells” was also observed. Remember: these disruptions emerged after the cohort had taken a single ecstasy tablet…
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