club drugs

"I didn't care about anyone or anything. I just cared about doing my own thing, selling and partying. I'd take out anyone who got in my way. Ecstasy is a roller coaster. It brings you up so high that you feel like you're on top of the world. When you come down you feel like a complete outsider, like you don't belong anywhere," said Daniel Oerum, 17, former ecstasy abuser in treatment. Yet the popularity of club drugs, such as ecstasy, has increased exponentially in recent years causing major cause for concern. The U.S. government must extend the “War on Drugs” to tailor to the surge of ecstasy use.
A 1998 survey found that an estimated 3.4 million Americans over the age of 12 years old had tried MDMA (ecstasy) at least once during their lifetime (National Institute on Drug Abuse). And Trial use of ecstasy has doubled since 1995 (Partnership for a Drug-Free America). These statistics vividly portray a problematic picture. The first reported death due to the use of ecstas...