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• Title: Mediating Mdma-Related Harm: Preloading and Post-Loading Among Ecstasy-Using Youth (Report)
• Author : Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 231 KB

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With the global surge in Ecstasy use during recent decades, and the potential for harm associated with the use of Ecstasy, the continued study of the negative consequences related to Ecstasy use is critical. With its emergence as a significant recreational drug among youth, young people in particular bear the burden of risk. Dramatic increases in Ecstasy use among U.S. high school-aged youth occurred between 1996 and 2001, with lifetime prevalence figures almost doubling (Johnston, O'Malley & Bachman 2002). U.S. national data suggests similar increases during that time among 18 to 25 year olds (SAMHSA 2002). These trends have similarly emerged in Australia (Degenhart, Copeland & Dillon 2005), Europe (Bogt & Engels 2005; Soellner 2005), and Canada (Barrett et al. 2005), though not simultaneously. In some instances, the increase in Ecstasy use has led to negative health outcomes associated with the drug. Drug Abuse Warning Network data suggest that emergency room (ER) mentions of Ecstasy in New York coincided with the diffusion of Ecstasy's use and increased five-fold from the second half of 1998 to the first half of 2000, indicating that problematic outcomes rose along with more widespread use (CEWG 2001). Since 2001, rates of Ecstasy use have plateaued in the United States, indicating that the diffusion period of the drug cycle has ceased and we have entered a period of stabilization. Nonetheless, Ecstasy remains a widely used substance, with roughly two million users in the U.S. during 2005 (SAMHSA 2006). In addition, though its diffusion has plateaued in America and Europe, Ecstasy use continues to diffuse in other regions of the world--e.g. Australia (Degenhardt, Barker & Topp 2004). Along with the proliferation of Ecstasy, the concern for harm associated with its use has diffused to various subsets of Ecstasy-using populations as well. Two key harms concerning scientists and health professionals as well as Ecstasy users themselves are neurological dysfunction and depression.

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