MDMA("Ecstasy")-Konsum - ein Überblick zu psychiatrischen und medizinischen Folgen
Fortschritte der Neurologie · Psychiatrie February 1, 1997 Rainer Thomasius, Margit Schmolke, Dana Kraus
Use of MDMA ('Ecstasy') has sharply increased, with changes in the drug scene inside and outside Europe. For some users, Ecstasy leads to abuse of other illegal substances. Since the mid-1980s, at least 48 cases of psychiatric complications have been reported, including acute complications that resolve with intoxication, toxic psychoses, and long-term conditions such as atypical and paranoid psychoses, depression, panic disorders, depersonalization, and behavioral disorders. Convulsive seizures are common central nervous system problems; cerebrovascular accidents and intracranial hemorrhages have also occurred. At least 53 cases of medical complications in MDMA abusers have been reported, 14 of them fatal. Large-scale prospective epidemiological and clinical studies are still lacking.