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8 Sep 2020, 12:12Updated: , 13:39 A MUM has shared a horrifying picture of her 16-year-old daughter in a coma after she took MDMA. Remy Turner, from Guernsey, was left fighting for her life in intensive care after taking the party drug, also known as ecstasy. The teen suffered a seizure when her body reacted badly to the Class A drug and spent six days in a coma after being rushed to a hospital on Guernsey. But despite Remy’s family being told she would not survive the ordeal three times, the young girl has made a miraculous recovery. –– ADVERTISEMENT...

Thursday, March 30, 2006 No rave crackdown coming Teen rules wouldn't have stopped tragedy, officials say By ANGELA GALLOWAY AND D. PARVAZ P-I REPORTERS Faced with the senselessness of last week's slaughter of six young people hours after an all-night, all-ages dance party, many parents want not only answers -- but also accountability. That has some in Seattle's "rave" scene worried about a government crackdown reminiscent of the controversial and now defunct "Teen Dance Ordinance." But it's more likely that the only new restrictions on raves here will be self-imposed -- with at least two events scheduled for this weekend...

"US soldiers traumatized by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are to be offered the drug ecstasy to help free them of flashbacks and recurring nightmares. The US food and drug administration has given the go-ahead for the soldiers to be included in an experiment to see if MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy, can treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Scientists behind the trial in South Carolina think the feelings of emotional closeness reported by those taking the drug could help the soldiers talk about their experiences to therapists."Full Story

A Houston man who met two juvenile girls over the Internet drugged and assaulted them after luring them from their school campus, authorities said. Navid Ocheghaz Ghahremani, 21, of the 6100 block of Reims was arrested Friday and charged with one count each of aggravated sexual assault of a child and sexual assault of a child. Bond was set at $60,000. Harris County Precinct 4 deputy constables said Ghahremani met two north Harris County girls on the Internet and picked them up from their private school campus Jan. 30. The girls, 13 and 14, told their parents they spent the...

The old failures of new and improved anti-drug education I’m at the February 2001 Teens at the Table conference, a feel-good event sponsored by a coalition of Los Angeles youth organizations and high schools. It’s designed to boost self-esteem and teach teenagers how to make smart decisions. In one of the sessions, a group of students is about to learn how easy it is to stay off drugs. It doesn’t require anything as lame as red ribbons or "Just Say No" chants. It just takes knowing what constitutes a healthy decision -- one that is all your own -- coupled...

In September, the journal Science issued a startling retraction. A primate study it published in 2002, with heavy publicity, warned that the amount of the drug Ecstasy that a typical user consumes in a single night might cause permanent brain damage. It turned out that the $1.3 million study, led by Dr. George A. Ricaurte of Johns Hopkins University, had not used Ecstasy at all. His 10 squirrel monkeys and baboons had instead been injected with overdoses of methamphetamine, and two of them had died. The labels on two vials he bought in 2000, he said, were somehow switched. The...

Iranian Officials Ignore Ecstacy Abuse August 18, 2003 Radio Free Europe Bill Samii It is difficult for some people to imagine the extent of drug abuse in Iran, an Islamic theocracy. Yet on 21 July an official in Iran's Drug Control Headquarters, Mohammad Hussein Khademi, said almost 3 million people out of a total population of about 67 million have addiction problems, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported on 27 July. And on 12 August Mohsen Vazirian, an official with the Ministry of Health, Treatment, and Medical Education, described the distribution of free syringes to Tehran drug addicts in...

<p>We’re at war. The people in charge of running the war say that we have to trust them: trust their integrity, and trust their judgment.</p> <p>But how can we trust our government to spot terrorists when it thinks that glow-sticks are items of "drug paraphernalia?"</p>