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Ecstasy: It's All The Rave

Ecstacy, GHB, Ketamine and Rohyphnol are all major components of today's popular all night dance parties called raves. While our children look to the experience as liberating, exciting and transforming, in actuality it is dangerous, condemning and ruinous to their lofty ideals and dreams. The results of taking part in the drugs widely available in the rave scene can mean addiction, imprisonment and death.

Today more drugs are available than nameable by most adults and our children know them all. Among the most pervasive and dangerous current in the drug culture is that of the Club Drugs.

As today's youth look about them and see the fast paced, high energycurrents of society their need for an escape begins to seek new outlets. Many find the answer in drugs.

Ecstasy is taken orally, usually in tablet or capsule form, and it's effects last approximately four to six hours. Ecstasy produces profoundly positive feelings, elimination of anxiety, and extreme relaxation. Ecstasy makes people have good feelings towards others. It is also said to suppress the need to eat, drink, or sleep. People who take ecstasy are able to endure two-to three-day parties. While the drug is not as addictive as heroin or cocaine, ecstasy can cause sever adverse effects.

Club Drugs like Ecstasy offer people an alternative to the stigma of using so called "hard drugs" and give them the feeling that they are experimenting with something that is safe, available and fun. However, these newer drugs like Ecstasy on the scene are all but safe, yet widely available.

Like LSD and Angel Dust in the 60's these drugs give users the feeling of being somehow transformed. And as users learned then, users today are learning Ecstasy and other Club Drugs can sometimes transport them to the door of death, jail, and institutionalization.

 

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