NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For a glimpse into real-world drug use, Australian researchers went to parties where people were using a drug known as ecstasy - and discovered that users' brains were at ...

Disturbing evidence is emerging that the increasingly popular drug ecstasy can be linked to users suffering long-term brain damage. University of Adelaide researchers have found that ecstasy taken on ...

A new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry trumpeting the dangers of Ecstasy use received A. In fact there is nothing new to this claim. Government-funded researchers have been making ...

LONDON (AP) _ Ecstasy, the increasingly popular party drug, may cause more brain damage in women than in men, new research suggests. A study published this week in The Lancet medical journal compared ...

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Scratch what you’ve heard about ecstasy being bad for the brain. Tests that found nonusers more mentally competent than users are now being called “flawed,” according to a press release today from the ...

New research has escalated a decades-old scientific and political battle over the risks inherent in the popular street drug known as Ecstasy. A synthetic chemical cousin of "speed," Ecstasy already ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Partying with Ecstasy several times a night, a common practice among users of the illegal drug, may damage key neurons in the brain and perhaps hasten the onset of Parkinson's ...

MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) causes damage to fine serotonergic fibers and apoptotic neurodegeneration in the adult rat brain. But little is known about the toxic effects of MDMA in the ...

I found it astonishing that someone actually tried to find an answer to this question. A recently published study by a group in Switzerland indicates that scientists are becoming more willing to ...