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Brave New World Aldous Huxley
660 wordsA Brave New World is Aldous Huxley's prediction for six hundred years in the future. In this surreal land everyone belongs to everyone else, and in theory everyone is happy. When any character is unhappy or feeling upset about something they are encouraged to take a drug called Soma. This drug can be compared to modern-day drugs such as Prozac, and the controlled substance methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), better knows as Ecstasy. Soma is a wonder pill from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World th...
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Play An Important Makes You Feel
1,835 wordsIts All the Rave: Should Club Drugs Be Legalized? Its 7 oclock on a Saturday morning and while some teenagers are enjoying the extra hours of sleep, many are still bouncing around to the sounds of techno music. Thousands of teenagers and even some adults are stuffed into an old warehouse decorated with black lights, disco balls, and tons of smoke machines. Their hearts are pounding and their pulse is racing at the speed of light, all compliments of designer drugs known as club drugs. Changing th...
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Muscle Tension Brain Damage
711 wordsThe drug commonly known as ecstasy, is a designer drug that is increasingly affecting the health and taking the lives of teens, college students, and young professionals around the world and needs to be put to a stop. Ecstasy, or MDMA, is a synthetic, psychoactive, mind altering drug with hallucinogenic and amphetamine like properties. Many problems users run across when taking the drug ecstasy include, psychological difficulties, including confusion, depression, sleep problems, drug craving, se...
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High School Seniors War On Drugs
1,766 wordsThe year is 2000. The War on Drugs is a lost cause. The United States has spent hundreds of billions of dollars and lost thousands of lives. The result is any adult or child with a couple measly dollars can purchase any existing illegal drug almost anywhere in the country (Greer 6 / 24 / 98). The emergence of a new designer drug (a combination of two existing drugs) ecstasy, which is the most common street term for the illicit drug MDMA (+/- 3, 4 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine), has brought a fat...
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Greater Risk Study Suggests
735 wordsEcstasy: Are Women More Susceptible To Brain Damage? The rave scene. Its becoming a popular way to kick-back for high school and college kids. Everyone is doing it at parties. Unfortunately, this party isnt all fun and games. Drugs are prevalent at raves. Ecstasy, one of the most popular drugs abused there is like the tiny insects that arent widely feared, but can be deadly. It looks small and innocent, but its more harmful than you may think. Ecstasy is actually C 11 H 15 NO 2, which means. New...
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Potentially Harmful Drug Abuse
1,089 words... out running a test on it. Ecstasy testing kits are portable and discreet testing kits which are quick, easy to use, relatively simple, and inexpensive products which allow people to test unknown pills to help determine their contents. Because the quality of street ecstasy is notoriously poor, having the ability to at least narrow down the possible contents can help reduce the risks associated with the use of street ecstasy. They are important because they can test if a pill contains Ecstasy/...
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Ten Years Dance Music
711 wordsFor my book report I read Generation Ecstasy. There was so much information in the book about the rave scene and "ecstasy", I didn't know where to begin. It's been ten years since the English seized on Detroit techno, Chicago house, and New York garage as the seeds of what's generally agreed-over there, at least-to be the most significant music since punk, and they " re celebrating with a slew of historical studies. Simon Reynolds attempts to bridge the gap with "Generation Ecstasy, " an exhaust...
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Peace Love Unity Rave Scene
3,527 wordsIntroduction What is a rave? This is a fundamental question that, in a way, I will attempt to answer in this paper, but I will never do it. Raving is a highly subjective experience. One person's best rave is another person's worst. Any attempt to analyze rave culture must recognize the highly personal factor of the experience. It is because of this fact that I start off my attempt to analyze rave culture with a series of quotes on the experience. .".. hardcore music being slammed through my body...
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Rave Scene Designer Drugs
856 wordsRaves are becoming more popular than ever and these designer drugs are becoming even easier to get a hold of (Kusinitz 46). When asked, over 50 percent of high school seniors said they knew they could get ecstasy "fairly easily" or "very easily" if needed (National Institute on Drug Abuse). Since untrained amateurs commonly create designer drugs in underground laboratories, the drugs can be dangerous (Mass 16). Among all designer drugs, MDMA, or Ecstasy is the most commonly used (Kusinitz 47). O...
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Rave Culture And Its Effects On Popular
1,199 words... posts individualism, a come-as-you-are mentality, there are definitely many similarities among ravers in general. A unique aspect of rave culture is the fashion. There is a definite sense of individualism within the rave fashion scene; you are likely to see someone in jeans, someone in black vinyl pants, or someone in costume. However, many people fit into a definite 'typical raver' mold. For males, baggy pants are the norm. A very tight shirt, no shirt, or a sweatshirt is also common for ma...
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Illicit Drug Ecstasy Mdma
1,644 wordsIllicit Drug (Ecstasy MDMA) Ecstasy, scientifically known as 3, 4 -methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA), represents a known street illicit drug and simultaneously entirely synthetic substances, which does not exist in nature. From the chemical perspective, MDMA is a derivative of a derivative of methamphetamine and its parent compound amphetamine. Practically, it differs from the mentioned chemicals in a single but important aspect: due to the specific location of its methylenedioxy (-O-CH^sub ...
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Peace Love Unity Rave Scene
7,121 wordsIntroduction What is a rave? This is a fundamental question that, in a way, I will attempt to answer in this paper, but I will never do it. Raving is a highly subjective experience. One persons best rave is another persons worst. Any attempt to analyze rave culture must recognize the highly personal factor of the experience. It is because of this fact that I start off my attempt to analyze rave culture with a series of quotes on the experience. hardcore music being slammed through my body while ...
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Psychological Dependence Opium Poppy
2,700 wordsDrug and Alcohol Abuse Both Drug and Alcohol abuse seems to be a big problem in our world today, with the idea that some kind of substance is needed to have fun. Its mostly in the teenage and young adult years that drug abuse begins, and most older addicts started when they were young. In this paper i am going to go over a few will used drugs, their ingredients, uses, and effects. Alcohol Alcohol, the most wide abused drug, In todays world, alcohol is not often thought of as a drug largely becau...
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Long Term Effects Mood Swings
4,726 wordsDrugs work by changing chemicals in your brain that control your mood. Most drugs boost or imitate the behavior of chemicals (like adrenaline, dopamine and serotonin) which regulate our mood, well being and energy levels. These chemical messengers are part of what makes us feel happy. The reason people continue doing drugs or become addicted is to do with a part of the brain called the reward pathway. It? s an area deep in the brain which makes us repeat experiences that feel good, be it having ...
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Side Effects High School Drug
528 wordsThe Ecstasy 1 September 2000 The Lure of Ecstasy According to the Time Magazine article ecstasy is a serious drug in America. Karen a high school student from Texas experiments with the drug before school. In Grand Rapids, Michigan takes the drug so her and husband can talk about there problems. So what is this drug? ecstasy? and where did it come from? Well according to Time it is actually MDMA. The patient was issued in 1914 to the E. Merch Company. The chemists though they could develop the d...
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Dance Clubs Side Effects
665 wordsEcstasy Chemically, ecstasy is known as methylene-dioxymethamphetamine or MDMA. It falls between two major categories of drugs, hallucinogens and amphetamines. Ecstasy usually comes in the form of a small tablet. In 1914, MDMA was first used as a prescription drug to reduce appetite. However it wasn? t until 1981 when American youths first started using it as a recreational drug. It was completely legal in the US until 1985 when it was added to the banned list. It was about the same time that th...
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Play An Important Makes You Feel
1,875 wordsIt? s All the Rave: Should Club Drugs Be Legalized? It? s 7 o? clock on a Saturday morning and while some teenagers are enjoying the extra hours of sleep, many are still bouncing around to the sounds of techno music. Thousands of teenagers and even some adults are stuffed into an old warehouse decorated with black lights, disco balls, and tons of smoke machines. Their hearts are pounding and their pulse is racing at the speed of light, all compliments of designer drugs known as club drugs. Chang...
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Made Me Feel Rave Scene
4,550 wordsMethamphetamine: Built for Speed? Methamphetamine has reclaimed a place in the lexicon of party drugs. Hailed by nocturnal adventurers, condemned by raver idealists, is speed a sleepless dream or an addictive nightmare? by Brian Otto Here at the end of the millennium, the pace of modern life seems fleeting a whirl of minutes, hours and days. In dealing with the changes, humans have equipped themselves with the tools to move faster, more efficiently. At the same time a dependence for the marketin...
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Rave Culture Club Drugs
1,454 wordsRave and drugs The new millennium is coming soon. So, there are many of special parties will appear at the end of the year. All of the youth people are being busy to think what party they should attend and have the most fun on this special New Year Eve to greet the Y 2 K (year 2000). In my mind, a word Xrave pop up because it can have more than thousand of people dance in a place and create the festive atmosphere. This is the reason why the rave culture will still go on to capture the attention ...
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Made Me Feel Quot Quot
4,670 wordsBuilt for Speed? Methamphetamine has reclaimed a place in the lexicon of " party" drugs. Hailed by nocturnal adventurers, condemned by raver idealists, is speed a sleepless dream or an addictive nightmare? by Brian Otto Here at the end of the millennium, the pace of modern life seems fleeting a whirl of minutes, hours and days. In dealing with the changes, humans have equipped themselves with the tools to move faster, more efficiently. At the same time a dependence for the marketing, h...
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