1. Adele Smith

2. Street names: E, XTC, X, Adam, hug, beans, clarity, lover’s speed, and love drug.

3. Methods of Entry: Ecstasy is taken by the mouth in a pill, capsule, or tablet. They come in different colors, shapes, and some display cartoon images on them. Some people take more than one at a time, which is called “bumping”.

4. Primary Method of Action: Ecstasy gives you a glow of well-being, happiness, empathy, euphoria, increases your sensitivity to rhythmic music, and makes you want to dance.

5. Unwanted side effects: Nausea Hallucinations Chills & sweating Increased body temp Tremors Muscle cramping Blurred vision

6. Dependency?: Heavy users whose serotonin system is regularly depleted by the drug rely on greater quantities of the drug to produce smaller and smaller effects. Because your serotonin supply is finite, repeated dosing cannot provide a stronger or lengthened high after all your serotonin has been released. A study of young adult and adolescent ecstasy users found that 43% were dependent, and 34% met the criteria for drug abuse. Almost 60% of users reported both physical and emotional withdrawal symptoms. Frequently, though, Ecstasy users also use other drugs and alcohol and may be addicted to more than one drug simultaneously.

7. Withdrawal?: Depression Anxiety Panic Attacks Insomnia Lack of ones ego (De- personalization) Loss of reality Paranoid Delusions

8. Typical Users?: TEENAGERS,

9. Long term effects: