Ecstasy__Invading_Our_Youth

Ecstasy: Invading Our Youth Ecstasy: Invading the Youth The year is 2000. The War on Drugs is a lost cause. The United States has spent hundreds of billions of dollars and lost thousands of lives. The result is: any adult or child with a couple measly dollars can purchase any existing illegal drug almost anywhere in the country (Greer 6/24/98). The emergence of a new designer drug (a combination of two existing drugs) “ecstasy,” which is the most common street term for the illicit drug MDMA (+/-3,4Methylenedioxymethamphetamine), has brought a fatal blow to the War on Drugs. The “love drug,” as MDMA is sometimes referred to, has spread from its previously isolated dwellings within the darkness of the “rave” scene (a rave is an all-night illicit dance party), into high schools across the United States and Canada. “Police say the manufacture, smuggling, and availability of ecstasy are booming” (Oh 4/24/00). The tremendous increase of ecstasy use is due to its escalating social acceptability, the perceived safety of the drug, and the influence of peer testimonies. This dramatic proliferation of the use of “X” is something that urgently needs to be addressed. A succinct application of existing drug enforcement venues would aid in the drug, ecstasy, drugs, high, year, schools, say, people, mdma, least, young, school, because, about, pills, one, illicit, education, users, states, much, hernandez, every, cocaine, children, am, acceptability, 8/2/00, youth, within, united, spread, socially, seniors, seized