MDMA vid

Question 1

bombs

Answer 1

in cigarette paper

Question 2

in SI –> absorbed –> H/L to rest of body

Answer 2

MDMA molceules are small enough to go throughproes the brain

Question 3

euphoria effects

Answer 3

amphetamine (stimulant and hallucinogen)
- social bonding, intimate feeling
- powerful emotional connection with one another
- creates eMPATHY***

Question 4

test 1decreases ability to read negative emotions in others
- obvlius to negative cues of others

test 2: attractiv, intelligent
- apply positive attributes to people they meet

Question 5

katie at club: increase in serotonin
- excess serotonin not reuptaken and goes to post-synaptic neuron

• releases oxytocin (cuddle chemcial) -> post orgasmic release
• can focus on music easier –> dampens activity to allow creative areas to run free
• 5am –> come down
• vision is down

Question 6

actress on MDMA: everything was a party

Question 7

robert–> snorts durg

• encoats nasal wall –> to caps on nasal side
• around body in20 mins
• full of energy (rolling with momentum it gives you
• dopamine controls mvmnt (reward pathway)–> stimulated motivated
• in PFC –> focus on one paticualr task (dancing)
• focus on the music easier
• takes a bit more at come down
• only so much serotonin available

Question 8

dance for hours can put users in physical danger –> sweating and sweating
- hypothermia : overheat dramatically –> happens in hypothalamus (serotonin release interferes with thermostat internally)
- affects all areas of the body

cells could stick together and cells would die

hyponatremia: waters in body made high
- large water in brain
- brain is squshed in skull and can crush SC and cause death

Question 9

noradrenaline released in the body –>
- pupils dialate
- jaw clenched

Question 10

side effects (lynn)

Answer 10

joints aching
- crash
- highs are harder to achieve with lack of serotonin
- depression replaces good feeling

hallucinations:
- running around
- psychiatric hospital
- anti depressants

Question 11

lynn –> can be at rock bottom and still thrive in life

Question 12

can treat depression (shulgin)

Answer 12

movemnent to legalize it in therapy
- for PTSD –> war veterans

• for cancer patients with anxiety
  -try it together with husband
• filmed final session (pain doesn’t associate with words)
• reduces fer response with emotional threats
• works through grief with it

Question 13

family tragedy from MDMA

Answer 13

OD

• GF found him dead
• by hypothermia –> major organ failure