Club Drugs

Club drugs are basically drugs that make the user feel extremely psychedelic and trippy. There is a plethora of different drugs under the classification of club drugs, but the three main ones that will be talked about are MDMA, GHB, and ketamines.

MDMA, or more commonly referred to as ecstacy, x, ex, or xtc, is a drug that is usually taken orally that, in the short term, causes the user to feel openness, euphoria, empathy, love, and heightened self-awareness. Scientists are still unaware of exactly what the long term effects of ecstacy are. Though, they do know that it has a chance of causing long term depression because it miscues the release of serotonin. Some side effects of ecstacy are dilated pupils, euphoria, empathy, sweaty palms, heavy sweating, and muscle spasms. There were studies done on animals by the U.S. Army that proved that there is a lethal dose of ecstacy. It is very controversial as to whether or not ecstacy is addictive because of the fact that in Germany, previously categorized addicts made an improvement without any treatment at all. It is also unknown if a tolerance can be developed to the drug. Withdrawl symptoms are still unclear. Ecstacy has been illegal since 1985. Before that, therapists used it for medicinal reasons. Ecstacy is illegal in the U.S. and you will go to jail for 99 years to life for use, possession, selling and/or dealing. Some amazing facts about ecstacy include the fact that ecstacy was pattented by a German company called Merck. It was also used as an appetite supressant.

GHB is another club drug that is known on the streets as G, juice, and liquid x. GHB comes in a liquid form and it is commonly referred to as "the date rape drug". Though one of the street names for GHB is liquid x, its effects are nothing like those of ecstacy. The effects of GHB are like those of alcohol, if taken in small doses. When GHB is taken in high doses, it may cause amnesia, dizziness, and unconsciousness. Over the long term, people may become physicaly and mentally addicted. The long term effects of GHB are still unknown. Overdoses are very possible with GHB, and it makes the consumer of the drug sleep for many hours with no way of awakening them; many times this ends with death. GHB is can be addictive and the withdrawl effects include hallucinations, anxiety, sweating,