Part of it may be the invincibility of youth...or so they think. One more thing that I thought of regarding the Shapiro death due to Ecstasy...he is Jewish and the son of a high profile Jewish lawyer...and it happened during the week of a Jewish holiday. I just hope that it turns out to be an isolated incident in that area, and that there are not tainted drugs. Maybe this incident would scare enough of those who would take these drugs into reality. Me, I barely even take asparin...and thankfully for my crazy strict parents...the thought of drugs never crossed my mind when I was young.
Ditto my parents. I'd have been disciplined into another planet had I done any such thing. When I take aspirin and other drugs I break out in hives. Side effects don't seem to be much of an issue for people popping ecstacy or meth.