New study finds no cognitive impairment among ecstasy users
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 06:02
in Psychology & Sociology
The drug known as ecstasy has been used by 12 million people in the United States alone and millions more worldwide. Past research has suggested that ecstasy users perform worse than nonusers on some tests of mental ability.But there are concerns that the methods used to conduct that research were flawed, and the experiments overstated the cognitive differences between ecstasy users and nonusers.