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. 1. cardiovascular: related to both the heart and blood vessels.