Ecstasy: Ecstasy, a drug medically termed as MDMA has created a huge stir among teenagers today. Ecstasy meaning extreme emotional excitement (Websters 167), has many eyes of speculation on it. From the drugs history, its components, the risks, the benefits, as well as why people seem to take it are all-important issues that need to be discussed. It’s rapid popularity and quotas of being the “happy drug” can’t all be true, this drugs deadly …showed first 75 words of 612 total…

…showed last 75 words of 612 total…powder, or liquid. Although it is most commonly used in tablet form(Yew 2). Most of the tablets are craftily designed, and engraved with a range of images varying from birds, animals, words, numbers, and cars(Yew 3). MDMA can be taken by swallowing, snorting, smoking and also injecting. The early effects begin 30 to 60 minutes after taken and peak after 90 min. and last for about 4 to 8 hours. The duration of the effects last between 8 to 24 hours(ibid).