Club Drugs and Drug Abuse Information

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Club Drugs

Club drugs such as Ecstasy, GHB, LSD, and Ketamine are used at "raves" and dance clubs. These types of drugs are used to "enhance the club going experience". Unfortunately, many users are not aware how dangerous they can be. Taking these types of drugs can cause serious health problems and in some severe cases even cause death. When they are used in addition to alcohol they become even more toxic. Alcohol can increase the club drugs effects to dangerous levels, dehydrate the user even more than if they had only taken the the illegal drug, and combine to create dangerous concoctions in the users body.

Club drugs often produce unwanted side effects that the user is not prepared for. These side effects include hallucinations, paranoia, amnesia, dehydration, and in extreme cases even death. In addition to these side effects, the user never truly knows how they will react to the drug they have taken until they have already taken it. Ecstasy for example, is often created with a variety of different substances. One experience with a type of ecstasy may go as planed but the second experience may be extremely different because the drug was created using different substances. Studies have shown that club drugs found at parities are often impure, making them even more dangerous. One never knows what they are going to get when it comes to these types of drugs.