Wednesday, 27. May 2009
Topic: DRUGS - on May 27, 2009 at 1:31:00 PM CEST
Scientists admit: we were wrong about ‘E’ - Experts who gave a dramatic warning that ecstasy led to brain damage based their study on a huge blunder
It was billed as the one of the most dramatic warnings the world has ever received over the dangers of ecstasy. A study from one of America’s leading universities concluded that taking the drug for just one evening could leave clubbers with irreversible brain damage, and trigger the onset of Parkinson’s disease.
The study, published in the eminent journal Science last September, had an immediate impact. Doctors and anti-drug crusaders spoke of a ‘neurological time bomb’ facing the young. Others suggested that taking one of the tablets was the equivalent of playing Russian roulette with the brain, and demanded tighter ‘anti-rave’ laws to deal with it.
