EP 7: Can You Be Permanently Damaged From Doing Ecstasy?

Yes

Is she trying to portray someone on E? This seems more like cocaine.

And yes, doing too many drugs permanently damages you. Google could have told you that.

maybe i'll get a more sensible answer here. then again, maybe not.

i asked the dr a question. he accepted to use for segment. i made video of me asking said question. file size to large to send over internets. me gives up because i have zero computer smarts.

HELP?

Do you have to email it? Could you not upload it to mediashare (or some other upload service) or ftp it?

I'm guessing Doc would rather not hassle with such, but it can't hurt to ask.

Alternately, adjust the settings on your camera and reshoot to a smaller file.

There is also probably a way to resize the file, but I'm blank on that.

interesting.

it needs to be a decent clip, quality-wise, so i'm not sure that changing the resolution would be a good idea.

i never even knew anything about mediashare, so, shit.

thanks for the help, Tuffy. chime back if you remember how to resize.

Matt!

Do you want to mail a disk? I can email you the address. Other options: call it in over the phone and we'll get someone to lip sync, come to New York to do it live, whatever else you can think of. We'll figure it out.

Anyone who cares: RE damage from Ecstasy, here's a clarification (or something) I just posted on YouTube:

"I picked this question to answer because a doctor whose work I respect a great deal but/and is something of a party animal told me he was seeing cases of people with permanently lowered mood states from E (not to be confused with Vitamin E), sometimes from very few doses, and that he had stopped doing E as a result.

Since people believing anecdotal "evidence" rather than scientific studies is one of things wrong with healthcare in the U.S., I stuck to studies in the piece. But it got to me."

xo,
bz

Josh, let me be the first to say, Welcome to The Cult.

all the ideas you mentioned are fantastic, and as much as i'd loveto come down to NY it may be a tad hard to fulfill due to my living in Australia.

I'll work something out. i tried zipping the file, but it was stil 70-odd MB. i guess i could copy it to a disc and fly it over to you, but i'm thinking that's a bit too much effort to go to.

worst comes to worst; you can just get someone else to ask my question for me. or maybe i can get someone here to do it for me.

cheers for chiming in. congrats on the fantastic book (i just finished reading it for the first time about two or three days ago) and again, welcome.

If you get a free Google account, you can use Google Documents to upload and share files up to 1024 mb.

Yip Welcome to the Cult Josh, I read your book last month and loved it!

google documents, ey!?

i already have a gmail account. so, that's pretty cool.

thanks so much for your help, Paranoid.

Welcome to the Cult.

Your book is lying open right next to me. I was walking through the house with my nose in it earlier. I have hardly put it down. I think when I finish it I will be sad that I read it so quickly, but I can't stop.

Thank you guys. Cool site.

make it a .zip file

haha, thanks for your help, Sticky Wicket, but if you check out one of the latest episodes you'll see that it is my question. it's the eyebrow piercing one.

You can also be damaged the first time you take a pain pill from a doctor, obviously MDMA isn't great for you. But I feel that you really should have clarified exactly where it stands. I've known well over 20-40 people who have done MDMA ( including myself) and hav e gone on to live great lives. Obviously this excludes people who abuse the chemical. I say if you are mature and use it only twice a year the benefits outweigh the negatives 10 fold.