I bet it's still not good for you

[andrewducker]

Apparently Ecstacy doesn't give you Parkinsons after all, this story says.

Researchers horrified to find they had used a mislabeled bottle in an experiment retracted their findings on Friday, saying they had failed to show the drug Ecstasy can cause a certain pattern of brain damage.

Their original report, published in September 2002, said they had found Parkinson's disease-like damage in the brains of monkeys injected with Ecstasy. or MDMA.

"The authors recently discovered that the drug used to treat all but one animal in that report came from a bottle that contained methamphetamine instead of the intended drug, MDMA ('Ecstasy')," the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which published the study in its journal Science, said in a statement...

Of course, it still fucks up your seratonin levels, and I'm remarkable attached to mine...

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Ah, I didn't know it did actual damage to the receptors, as opposed to simply doing short and medium term alterations of seratonin levels. The first is (to me) fairly minor, the second is a very serious problem.