How Does Mdma Affect Our Society

The History of MDMA and Its Affects in Our Society Hallucinogenic drugs have corroded the minds of the youth in our society, once used as a contact for spirits, is now used as a narcotic. The most commonly used “Party drug” is known as: Ecstasy, Happy pill, Molly, or scientifically MDMA. MDMA or Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, is a strong stimulant and hallucinogen at the same time. The drug was originally created and patented in “1913 by Alexander Shulgin”, (Saunders, 10) who had a fascination with the effect of drugs on fighting fish in an attempt to discover a therapeutic drug, not knowing that he created the basis of an illegal street drug that is flowing through the veins of our society, slowly infecting our population. The drug was

When they were still prescribing the drug, it was commonly labeled as very positive as a psychotherapeutic drug because as it was being used on patients it was producing positive results that they weren’t receiving without the drug. Although MDMA does no physical damage to the user, over a long period of time and extensive uses of the drug, your neurotransmitters that release dopamine and serotonin start to weaken and weaken and start to naturally release less of the chemical and require more of the drug in order to receive the same effect. When a person is exposed to this drug for a long time, they become depressed and emotionless because of the lack of dopamine and serotonin in the body, but the drug “causes damage to the terminals of serotonin axons in the brain”