Club Drug Was Once a Pharmaceutical

This is an article that examines how a drug that has become popular in today's underground drug culture was originally manufactured by a major german pharmaceutical company. MDMA or methylenedioxymethamphetamine is the most prominent active ingredient in the club drug Ecstasy. MDMA was first synthesized and patented by Merck in 1912. It was originally intended as an appetite suppressant. It was later used in the synthesis of some other pharmaceuticals. One can easily see how some pharmaceuticals that are intended to have a positive effect, like MDMA, or opiate painkillers. But it is seen throughout history that these advances were taken to far and eventually became an issue and not a solution. There has always been a drive for humans to seek a sort of escape through mind-altering substances that dates back to the earliest recordings of history. For example, in China it was written in some of the earliest medical works that Opium and other opiates were good for increasing stamina, subduing pain and increasing male virility. But to go along with the need to escape , there has always been the evil behind the smiling face of mind-altering drugs. addiction and abuse is surely followed by the introduction of drugs like these but they are still refined and distributed by pharmaceutical companies every day. This lack of concern about the unintended aspects of these substances demonstrates how these companies are not particularly bothered by the potential destruction of the human condition.

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