Ecstasy and neurodegeneration
- 17 August 1996
- Vol. 313 (7054) , 423
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.313.7054.423
Abstract
# Advice is that “less is more” {#article-title-2} EDITOR,—A Richard Green and Guy M Goodwin rightly point out that the risk of long term consequences of neurodegeneration associated with the use of ecstasy (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) may be greater than the risk of death from acute toxicity.1 Having reviewed the compelling evidence linking ecstasy with neurotoxicity in animals, they omit what is perhaps the strongest indication of neurotoxicity in humans. A universal …Keywords
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