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ICJI > Substance Abuse Services Division > About Indiana Point Of Youth > Ecstasy Ecstasy

KNOW THE SLANG
Adam, Bean, E, Ecstasy, M, Roll, X, XTC

KNOW WHAT IT IS
MDMA or Ecstasy (3-4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), is a synthetic drug with amphetamine-like and hallucinogenic properties.

KNOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
Ecstasy come in a tablet form that is often branded, e.g. Playboy bunnies, Nike swoosh, CK

KNOW HOW IT IS USED
Taken in pill form, users sometimes take Ecstasy at "raves," to keep on dancing and for mood enhancement. Older teens and college students often frequent raves.

KNOW ITS SHORT-TERM EFFECTS
Short-term effects include psychological difficulties, including confusion, depression, sleep problems, drug craving, severe anxiety, and paranoia – during and sometimes weeks after taking MDMA, physical symptoms such as muscle tension, involuntary teeth clenching, nausea, blurred vision, rapid eye movement, faintness, and chills or sweating.

KNOW ITS LONG-TERM EFFECTS
Recent research findings link MDMA to long-term damage to those parts of the brain critical to thought and memory. Chronic use of MDMA was found, first in laboratory animals and more recently in humans, to produce long-lasting, perhaps permanent, damage to the neurons that release serotonin, and consequent memory impairment.

KNOW ITS FEDERAL CLASSIFICATION
MDMA is a Schedule I drug

Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)