Posted by jimmygold70 on July 7, 2001, at 20:23:05
In reply to Long-term effects of Ecstasy, posted by sweetmarie on July 6, 2001, at 15:28:06
Ecstasy causes overstimulation of the serotonin pathways in the brain. This has been shown (as expected) to cause death of neurons in the brain of mice.
I suppose your friend might have already had a dysregulated serotnin system before starting the use of E, and it just made things much worse. Your friend's best bet would be to use drugs that enhance the transmittion of serotonin.
Nardil is a good example. Try to figure out what doses she has taken. It should be tried at doses of up to 90mg/day. Maybe she missed doses, who knows ?
However, an interesting apporach would be to use techniques targeted at Obsessive-Compulsive disorder (OCD) treatment. Some of your friends' symptoms resemble that of OCD. As she as already tried SSRIs (i.e. Prozac), those should be raised to the highest dose (i.e. Prozac 80mg or even higher) and augmented with Risperdal. The Risperdal augmentation strategy might prove extremely helpful for your friend, from my experience.
Also, taking Prozac makes E useless (you feel very little effect when using it, except for the stimulation), so it might discourage her use of it.
Here in Israel, we had much success using Depakene in emotionally unstable patients such as your friend. It can be added to any cocktail suggested above. Also, it will make alcohol useless for her, since, to my experience, it does terrible hangovers when used with alcohol...
My 2 cents,
Jimmy
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