About Ecstasy(midma)

Ecstasy is a synthetic and illegal drug chemically similar to the stimulant methamphetamine and the hallucinogen mescaline. Street names for Ecstasy include MIDMA, Adam, XTC, hug, beans, and love drug. It has been common for anti-ecstasy media, government publications, and researchers to say that ecstasy users believe ecstasy to be safe. Although it has been repeated many times, there is little data to support this claim.

Research in animals indicates that Ecstasy is neurotoxic; whether or not this is also true in humans is currently an area of intense investigation. Ecstasy can also be dangerous to health and, on rare occasions, lethal.

Chronic users of ecstasy perform more poorly than nonusers on certain types of cognitive or memory tasks.

In high doses, ecstasy can interfere with the body's ability to regulate temperature. This can lead to a sharp increase in body temperature (hyperthermia), resulting in liver, kidney, and cardiovascular system failure. Ecstasy can interfere with its own metabolism (breakdown within the body); potentially harmful levels can be reached