Comment · Sat, November 10, 2012
Research Suggests no Neurotoxicity in MDMA
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PuffyCheek · 194 points
In partial response to what I've been reading in the bestof'd thread here at /drugs, I think it would be good to start a discussion about the neurotoxicity in MDMA.
I feel as if the harmful effects discussed in the thread were overblown. According to a research done by the Harvard Medical School last year in 2011, users who were asked to use MDMA under a controlled setting over a certain period of time showed no signs of cognitive impairment nor decreased mental ability.
So the question remains, why do we have so much evidence from past research studies that show otherwise? The researchers at Harvard Medical School responded by saying that past research studies lacked a proper control environment. What that means is that past research studies did not control their test group to make sure they didn't engage in unhealthy activities after ingesting MDMA (i.e. going to a rave and dancing for 8 hours straight).
No research since 2011 has proved Harvard Medical School's conclusion wrong, that MDMA is actually harmful to your brain. No other research studies that I could personally find had settings as controlled as the one conducted by HMS.
That being said, research was done…
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fire_marshall_ill · 4 points
I have this friend, he did a large amount of club drugs, mostly molly, a time or few a week, for around a year, he has since cleaned up his act, only drinking socially (once a week at the most), but even after a couple of years, he still has bouts of depression (not really depression, but just no energy or motivation to even sit and watch a movie), and his memory is fucked. Is there any way my friend can reverse these effects, or at least lessen them? Or is it a lost cause?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Yes, you can take things to help reverse the effects. Nootropics are a type of brain enhancing substances that can help. Piracetam was the first, but knowledge in the area is advancing every day. There are a lot of new promising substances out there. Head over to /r/Nootropics and see what you can learn. There's a lot of good info to be found!