Ecstasy users 'risk Parkinson's disease'

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday September 27, 2002 18:33 by IMC Dalek

Ecstasy users 'risk Parkinson's disease' People using Ecstasy for as little as one night are putting themselves at risk. George Ricaurte at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, gave up to three consecutive doses of the drug to squirrel monkeys and baboons.(Could explain Spartacus) The doses were administered two hours apart in a bid to mimic the way some all-night clubbers use the drug