kindly consult your healthcare provider if you think that using ecstasy or molly is right for you.
What is the most important information I should know about MDMA?
MDMA is short for its chemical name 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine.
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It is a derivative of amphetamine and has a similar structure to methamphetamine (“meth”).
If you experience lasting effects after taking ecstasy, seek help from a medical professional as soon as possible.
Ecstasy additives and contaminants often include methamphetamine, caffeine, ephedrine, and ketamine.
Ongoing clinical trials also suggest that ecstasy may help treat chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
It is important to note that this research is still in the early stages.
This does not mean that ecstasy is available as a treatment.
Other effects include feeling greater empathy toward others and enhanced sensory perception.
As a stimulant, MDMA produces feelings of higher energy.
As ahallucinogenic drug, it distorts a person’s sense of time and perception.
MDMA Overdose
Overdose is rare but can be life-threatening.
Ecstasy overdose symptoms can include faintness, panic attacks or extreme anxiety, high blood pressure, and seizures.
CBT also teaches people coping skills so they can better manage the stress that contributes to substance use.
But once the drug’s hallucinogenic properties were discovered, further development was stopped for several decades.
Ecstasy was one of several drugs tested in a military context decades after.
It was many years after this that MDMA eventually appeared on the streets as a recreational drug.
It became popular during the 1960s and 1970s.
For a few years, in an attempt to circumvent the law, different versions of ecstasy were synthesized.
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