AHS Views

As if Ecstasy and methamphetamine weren’t bad enough by themselves, high school kids are now mixing the two. Meth is cheaper than Ecstasy, but the combination is dangerous. You mix the rise in body temperature and potential liver, kidney and heart damage of Ecstasy with the irregular heartbeat, increased blood pressure and brain damage caused by meth and you’ve got a recipe for addiction help – if you make it that far.

Meth isn’t the only drug being mixed with Ecstasy – with the prescription drug abuse epidemic going on, it’s almost a certainty Ecstasy is being cut with OxyContin, methadone, and some of the other prescription drugs that kids are in rehab for right now trying to get the addiction help they need.

Methamphetamine is highly addictive – and it was in more than half the meth seized by law enforcement last year. A 10% increase from the previous years.

Since 2003 the amount of Ecstasy seized at the Canadian U.S. border has increased by 10 ties. In 2006 almost 5.5 million pills were confiscated.
 
The scary thing is the use of ecstasy by high school and college students. If they are also using it with prescription drugs the combination could be lethal.

Your kids, and your town, are not immune. If they’re involved in drugs at all, get them addiction help services now. Don’t wait for the worst to happen.

In Australia it was reported that 25% of the MDMA (Ecstasy) seized contained no active drug. The question is: Do people taking placebos still need addiction help? I’m guessing that if you aren’t taking the drug you purchased, you may not need to get addiction treatment.

Recreational Ecstasy users have suspected that the drugs they were buying were of low quality but, lucky for them, the drugs were not drugs at all. If you tried selling non-drugs to U.S. consumers you might get sued - or worse - but you more than likely wouldn’t need any addiction help.

I am not sure anyone would find this particularly funny but perhaps the large drug companies could start shipping non-drugs to the Internet pharmacies selling them to drug dealers. The government could flood the market with non-drugs and prices would go down because of the unlimited supply. People would then be forced to get the addiction help services they needed because they didn’t have a supply of real drugs, only non-drugs. Just a thought …

Over the last several years there have been emerging problems with the abuse of club drugs and the damaging effects caused as a result. In fact, incidents of the abuse and the fatal effects of these drugs are in the news increasingly.

These types of drugs include MDMA or Ecstasy, Rohypnol, and GHB. All these drugs are most commonly used in the club or rave scene.

While ecstasy is said to be similar to a stimulant and a hallucinogen, ecstasy is a synthetic drug that can have many different properties and effects. Some ecstasy is laced with heroin while other pills can be laced with everything from cocaine to any synthetic chemical that the person making it decides to put into it. So you don’t really know what you’re taking when you take ecstasy.

Drugs like Rohypnol, GHB and Ketamine are drugs that heavily sedate a person and are most commonly used by those committing sexual assaults. Surprisingly, there are people that voluntarily take these drugs. All are tasteless and odorless.

Many people who go to raves on a regular basis say that they go to for the music and to meet new people. Even they cannot deny that clubs and rave parties are very common locations that these drugs are used and sold.

Of an estimated 106 million emergency department (ED) visits in the U.S. during 2004, the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) estimates that: