3.4
Read the booklet
Read: Short- and Long-term Effects
SHORT-TERM EFFECTS OF ECSTASY
- Impaired judgement
- False sense of affection
- Confusion
- Depression
- Sleep problems
- Severe anxiety
- Paranoia
- Drug cravings
- Muscle tension
- Faintness and chills or swelling
- Involuntary teeth clenching
- Blurred vision
- Nausea
Long-term effects of Ecstasy (MDMA)
- Long-lasting brain damage affecting thought and memory
- Damage to portions of the brain that regulate critical functions such as learning, sleep and emotion
- It is as if the brain switchboard was torn apart, then rewired backwards
- Degenerated nerve branches and nerve endings
- Depression, anxiety, memory loss
- Kidney failure
- Haemorrhaging
- Psychosis
- Cardiovascular1 collapse
- Convulsions
- Death
- 1. cardiovascular: related to both the heart and blood vessels.