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An Ecstasy overdose happens when you consume more Ecstasy than your body can safely handle. Ecstasy users are constantly flirting with drug overdose, and the difference between the high they are seeking and serious injury or death is often quite small.
What is Ecstasy? MDMA or “Ecstasy” as it is popularly known is a Schedule I synthetic, psychoactive drug possessing stimulant and hallucinogenic properties. Ecstasy possesses chemical variations of the stimulant amphetamine or methamphetamine and a hallucinogen, most often mescaline. Illicit use of Ecstasy did not become popular until the late 1980s and early 1990s.
This drug is frequently used in combination with other drugs, which increases the user’s risk of an Ecstasy overdose. However, it is rarely consumed with alcohol, as alcohol is believed to diminish its effects. Ecstasy is most often distributed at late-night parties called "raves", nightclubs, and rock concerts. As the rave and club scene expands to metropolitan and suburban areas across the country, Ecstasy use and distribution are increasing as well.
An Ecstasy overdose is characterized by:
- death
- faintness
- high blood pressure
- hyperthermia
- kidney and cardiovascular system failure
- loss of consciousness
- muscle breakdown
- muscle cramping
- panic attacks
- permanent damage to sections of brain critical to thought and memory
- rapid heartbeat
- seizures
- stroke
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