Posted by SLS on April 16, 2001, at 1:31:36
In reply to Re: it's even more horrifying that you're..... SLS, posted by mikes on April 16, 2001, at 0:27:13
> I looked up "mdma long term behavior changes" on google, no good articles came up. Could you give me some links? I'm not challenging you, I just really am interested in studies about damage caused by MDMA.
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> http://www.maps.org/research/mdma/gamma2000.pdf is the main one I know of. It says MDMA use effects memory and is neurotoxic to the serotonergic system.
Hi Mike.I will probably not be able to post for a few days. Maybe we can work together on this.
The major “obstacle” for determining with scientific confidence the long-term effects of the use of MDMA in humans is obviously a matter of ethics. I don’t think it would go over too well to take healthy, drug-naïve volunteers and administer to them MDMA on a regular basis over several years using different dosages and follow them during the exposure period and for years afterwards. This leaves anecdotal reports, retrospective and naturalistic studies, and attempts to corroborate observations and psychometric measurements with data collected from animal experiments. However, to me, there seems to be a trend of discovery in the direction of demonstrating both short-term and long-term adverse effects produced by the use of MDMA. I should mention here that there is speculation that some of the long-term psychological and cognitive distrurbances might be reversible. What is sure is that MDMA is directly responsible for the destruction of serotonergic nerve terminals.
My main reason for posting anything at all was to demonstrate that there are more than ample writings for any one person to read and feel well enough informed so that they may reasonably conclude that MDMA can be harmful.
- Scott
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