What Happens If You Take 25 Hits of Ecstasy Every Day for Four Years?
Doctors from London University finally have an answer, thanks to “Mr. A”, the 37-year-old British man estimated to have taken 40,000 hits of ecstasy over nine years. Mr. A’s intake is believed to be the largest amount of ecstasy ever consumed by a single person, with the previous known record a now-paltry 2,000 hits.
Details come from a case study, written by consultants from the addiction centre at St George’s Medical School, published in the scientific journal Psychosomatics, and reported by The Guardian:
The man started using ecstasy at 21. For the first two years his use was an average of five pills per weekend. Gradually this escalated until he was taking around three and a half pills a day. At the peak, the man was taking an estimated 25 pills every day for four years. After several severe collapses at parties, Mr A decided to stop taking ecstasy.
Since quitting E, Mr. A has lived a life riddled with “severe physical and mental health side-effects, including extreme memory problems, paranoia, hallucinations and depression. He also suffers from painful muscle rigidity around his neck and jaw which often prevents him from opening his mouth. The doctors believe many of these symptoms may be permanent.”
Full story here. (And good fucking luck to whatever fool takes it upon him- of herself to top Mr. A’s world-historic intake.)
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