{"title":"Psychiatric Aspects Of MDMA (3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine): The 'Diathesis-Stress' Explanatory Model","authors":"A. Parrott","doi":"10.2174/1874941001104010034","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The first individual case studies were published around 1990-1994, soon after MDMA was used for recreational purposes. In a comprehensive review of this case study literature, around one third of individuals had premorbid problems, while most cases did not have prior vulnerability factors [3]. Larger population surveys have found that recreational Ecstasy use is associated with significantly raised levels of depression, anxiety, phobic anxiety, agoraphobia, and paranoid psychosis [4-10]. The occurrence of these problems is associated with lifetime Ecstasy/MDMA usage [4, 5]. Furthermore, around 70% of recreational users report improved psychiatric wellbeing, after quitting ecstasy [6]. Other functional problems in","PeriodicalId":89289,"journal":{"name":"The open addiction journal","volume":"4 1","pages":"34-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The open addiction journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1874941001104010034","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The first individual case studies were published around 1990-1994, soon after MDMA was used for recreational purposes. In a comprehensive review of this case study literature, around one third of individuals had premorbid problems, while most cases did not have prior vulnerability factors [3]. Larger population surveys have found that recreational Ecstasy use is associated with significantly raised levels of depression, anxiety, phobic anxiety, agoraphobia, and paranoid psychosis [4-10]. The occurrence of these problems is associated with lifetime Ecstasy/MDMA usage [4, 5]. Furthermore, around 70% of recreational users report improved psychiatric wellbeing, after quitting ecstasy [6]. Other functional problems in