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Ecstasy Doesn'T Cause Dopamine Damage
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PoiSoNeD_CaNdY replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 3:20am |
 Coolness: 91825 | SCIENTISTS WHO SAID ECSTASY CAUSES BRAIN DAMAGE MIXED UP THE LABELS
A controversial study which claimed that ecstasy users ran a high risk of brain damage similar to that seen in Parkinson's disease has been withdrawn because the tests used the wrong drug. In a short, terse announcement this weekend, the US journal Science revealed that the team of scientists who made the claim had now admitted that their findings were completely false because of a labelling error. The neurologists, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, said the squirrel monkeys and baboons used in their tests had actually been dosed with methamphetamine, otherwise known as speed - not the MDMA compound used in ecstasy. Dr Jon Cole, a leading British expert on ecstasy, said that this "amazing" admission would cause "irreparable damage" to drugs education in the UK and increase the scepticism of drugs users about future ill-health warnings. "Why should any ecstasy user believe scientists after this?" he asked. "Even what we do know about ecstasy will now be ignored because users are looking for a reason not to believe us." The US team had originally claimed that their results, published by Science last September, proved that even one large dose of ecstasy could cause permanent brain damage, leading to tremors, stiffness and slowed movements, similar to Parkinson's. These claims caused intense controversy among doctors and other scientists, but were welcomed by anti-drugs campaigners. They stepped up demands for tougher police action against drug-taking and club culture. Alan Leshner, the former director of the US National Institute on Drug Abuse and chief executive of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes the journal, claimed this proved that even casual users were "playing Russian roulette with your brains". The row had added significance as the study was published three weeks after a study by senior British psychologists found no evidence that ecstasy use caused long-term harm, and said many studies criticising the drug were flawed or inconclusive. In their retraction, Dr George Ricaurte and four of his colleagues admitted that they had failed to repeat the results of their ecstasy study. "Multiple subsequent attempts to reproduce the original findings with systemically administered doses of MDMA identical to those used in the original study were also unsuccessful, under a variety of laboratory conditions," they said. [ www.mapinc.org ] |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» OMGSTFUDIEPLZKTX replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 9:33am |
 Coolness: 66650 | too bad half the E you guys get comes with speed as a side dish! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 1:19pm |
 Coolness: 471940 | *Starts looking for mdma again * .... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» kimochi replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 1:54pm |
 Coolness: 61335 | oui mais l'extacy cause surtout des domages aux neurotrensmeteurs de la cérotonine, l'hormone du plaisir...
c pourquoi dans les downs on a l'impression que tout est moche et que la vie est laide.... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 2:13pm |
| Coolness: 471940 | That's why i haven't done it for almost a year ...
Life in general might be a lil' less exciting ..at least i'm not too depressed either .. But shit i wish i could still handle it sometimes ... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» kimochi replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 2:20pm |
| Coolness: 61335 | could be great if scientist could found a drug whit no side effects...
it make 5 month i did not toutch to xtc.. i'm realy proud of me! :D |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Wed Sep 10, 2003 @ 2:34pm |
| Coolness: 471940 | Good for u !
I'm at almost a whole year ... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Toltech replied on Thu Sep 11, 2003 @ 12:37am |
 Coolness: 145555 | oui mais l'extacy cause surtout des domages aux neurotrensmeteurs de la cérotonine, l'hormone du plaisir...
c pourquoi dans les downs on a l'impression que tout est moche et que la vie est laide.... ouais mais ils viennent pas justement de dire que c'est pas prouver? Que leurs etudes n'avaient jamais conclu a [ ca ] voudrait dire que les downs et les depressions sont surement causees par quelquechose d'autre, non? Honettement, j'ai jamais personnellement senti de depressions, meme courtes, sur un down de E....peut-etre que j'en ai eu et j'l'ai avaient ignorer mais je doute fortment que ca marche comme ca.......de la fatigue, j'en ai senti c'est sur duh! pis du manque de patience, des fois avec ma soeur mais elle est vraiment chiante des fois pis en plus elle se fout si t'es fatiguer a mort ou pas:b Maintenant, j'suis curieux de savoir ce qui causerait ses depressions de downs de E..........c'etait pourtant une explication qui faisait du sens et qui parraissait logique. a suivre... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore replied on Thu Sep 11, 2003 @ 10:56am |
| Coolness: 471940 | The only thing is that there is no historical studies on it ..
We're almost the first e generation , so nobody knows what's up with the long-term effects and stuff ... |
Ecstasy Doesn'T Cause Dopamine Damage
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