While watching the video Ecstasy rising I did learn a lot of new and very interesting things. Some of the main things that I learned about had to deal with how ecstasy can impact your health and it’s impairment it has on you. Also how ecstasy can affect you when using it for a long period of time.
While ecstasy may have some bad effects on your health and impairment it also may not be as bad as people say. During the video it many people that had taken ecstasy and explaining how the drug was. Many of those people said that they always felt good on it and you could see the way the world really is. One man named Michael Kleg who was the main supplier of ecstasy in Texas stated that when he took it he thought he was having a revelation like mosses on the mountain. That shows it impairs the way you think to him in a good way. Also people said that you feel like your whole body is flowing with everything. While on the drug your sensory perception is turned way up, causes over heating and dehydration. In 1981 a doctor that was with the government said that ecstasy causes brain damage or holes in the brain and can cause parkensins disease with just one use. They also said that it can cause your serotonin to go down 50 to 85 percent which could cause depression. However a little time later a German doctor did a study and with that study you only lose up to 5 precent of serotonin which can cause depression but still is not as bad as what our government said. Later on the doctor from our government did admit that he did mess up his study and retracted his statement saying he used a stronger drug. With saying all of this ecstasy can cause depression with that never being good for your health.
On another note ecstasy can have an impact on you in different ways in continuum. One example of this is in the video is a woman named Tammy Tann was raped and after that she couldn’t connect with her family or even leave the house. So she started taking ecstasy for...