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The illegal party drug of choice of the 80s and 90s is back.

Police in the Netherlands dismantled something like 80 laboratories in the last year.

The purity of illegal drugs is the highest it's ever been. So people are overdosing more often

because of that. Most of us know it as the party drug ecstasy and now the key chemical in it, MDMA,

may be about to become a prescription drug. She had been suicidal, hospitalized, and MDMA was

able to bring her out of that. It's actually outrageous that drugs should be denied patients in a failed

attempt to stop recreational news. On the street, many things are called ecstasy,

but the traditional original ecstasy was MDMA.

And that's a powerful releaser of serotonin.

That's Professor David Nutt.

He's a neuropharmacologist, an expert in brain chemistry,

at Imperial College in London.

He also used to be the UK government's top advisor on drugs policy.

That was until he was fired in 2009 for publicly stating that taking ecstasy was considerably less dangerous than horse riding.

But while the statistics may back up his assertion, that doesn't mean that

popping ease is entirely risk-free. The reason? Well, it's all down to the serotonin this drug

releases into your brain. If you get too much serotonin in the brain, that can be very dangerous. In fact,

you can kill people. And sometimes we see that in people who have

accidentally taken drugs that they think are ecstasy, but which aren't ecstasy, like PMA.

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