The chemicals in ecstasy are MDMA, also known as (methylenedioymethamphetamine), cocaine, meth, lsd, and heroin and they each have different effects on and some on different parts of your body.
MDMA is in all ecstasy pills, so there for it's the most common. Once taken and given the time to have an effect on your body it stimulates many things. One of those things is called serotonin, which has the effect to change your mood, appetite, muscle contraction, sleeping habits, learning and memory. Besides humans it can also be found in plants, animals and certain types of fungi. The second thing MDMA stimulates is dopamine which is produced in several parts of the brain and can make you sleepy. The last thing that is affected by MDMA is norepinephrine which affects parts of the brain where attention and responding actions are controlled. (National Institute Of Health) MDMA affects those three areas of the brain, which is not as big of an affect as other drugs have on your body.
Cocaine is one of the many things ecstasy can be based with. Besides being based in ecstasy, you can also snort it, inject it, and smoke it. It's a brain chemical that releases pleasure and movement. The long term effects of this drug are your heart attack rate increases, chest pain, respiratory failure, seizures and headaches, strokes, abnormal pain and nausea. (Duhaime, Lloyd)It mainly affects your central nervous system and makes your blood pressure rise through the roof. This can be extremely bad or not severe at all depending on how much you do over how big of a time period.
Meth is highly addictive and when mixed with MDMA creates an unreasonable amount of pleasure. When using meth is releases a surge of dopamine (mentioned before) causing an insanely intense rush of pleasure. Over time if you are persistent with using meth, it makes it almost impossible to have pleasure or happiness without it, which is why it's so addictive. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) Meth creates a lot of paranoia, insomnia, extreme aggression, anxiety, and even death. If used for over a year, it deteriorates your body and rotes your teeth. A combination of MDMA and meth is dangerous, and one way people get addicted to ecstasy because meth is such an addictive drug.
LSD is a hallucinogenic that is often mixed with MDMA. LSD stands for lysergic acid diethylamide. It can come in the form of a pill, on a blotter sheep, or in a liquid form. LSD distorts your perception of reality which in some cases can be scary. It affects the serotonin system, which includes your mood, hunger, sexual behavior, body temperatures, sensory perception and muscle control. Once LSD is taken and given the time to hit your body, you start to see things you though you'd never imagine, feel sensations and hear weird things. (National Institutes of Health) Considering MDMA increases your serotonin and if LSD was mixed with MDMA you'd be literally out of your mind. You'd be feeling amazing while you'd be in your own reality. You might see snow during July or you could convince yourself you're a banana and start to peel yourself. If you take this, you need to be in a really happy environment because you can have a bad trip. If you have a bad enough trip you could convince yourself to jump off a cliff depending on what you're feeling.
The last thing ecstasy can be based with it heroin. It's right next to meth as the most addictive drug out there. What heroin does is it turns into morphine in the brain receptors ( a structure on the surface of a cell that selectively receives and binds a specific substance) that looks for endorphins. People like it because it relieves stress, pain, anxiety and gives them a sense of pleasure just like the other drugs I've talked about. It's dangerous because all the opiates (a narcotic drug that has opium) attack the part of the brain that controls your breathing, and if you're alone and you take too much of the drug you can die from suffocation. Its bad when mixed with ecstasy because if taken too much the withdrawals are very severe. It can be a 3-5 day process of nothing but shaking, sweats, diarrhea, insomnia, flu-like symptoms, cramps and goose bumps.
In each of my paragraphs, I've made it clear that each of these drugs is addictive because the main thing they create is a pleasurable sensation through-out your body. I've mentioned before in my earlier blogs that MDMA itself is not addictive; it's all the other things it's based with. Each drug does a little something different to each part of your body. (Spence, W. R.) Your body is a sacred place that should be taken care of and people shouldn't be putting these chemicals into their bodies because they had extremely bad side effects and long term effects.
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Duhaime, Lloyd. "Police Station Cocaine." Duhaime.org - Bringing Legal Information To The World. Web. 24 Oct. 2009. http://duhaime.org/LegalResources/PoliceStation/LawArticle-51/Cocaine.aspx#.
"Methamphetamine, crystal meth effects at SAMHSA's NCADI." Drug and alcohol abuse, treatment, prevention at SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information. Ed. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Web. 24 Oct. 2009. http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/GOVPUBS/PHD861/.
"Hallucinogens: LSD, Peyote, Psilocybin, and PCP - InfoFacts." National Institute on Drug Abuse - The Science of Drug Abuse and Addiction. Ed. National Institutes Of Health. Web. 24 Oct. 2009. http://www.drugabuse.gov/Infofacts/hallucinogens.html.
Spence, W. R. "Heroin." Yahoo! GeoCities: Get a web site with easy-to-use site building tools. Web. 24 Oct. 2009. http://www.geocities.com/cps17901/Drugs/heroin.html.
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