What are clinical effects of ecstasy?

Use: - most often recreational (raves, concerts…) - daily users (psychiatric comorbidity, poly users…) Subjective Effects: last 4 to 8 hours - elevated mood - increased self-confidence - sensory sensitivity - peaceful feelings coupled with insight, empathy, and closeness to people - decreased appetite Some of the effects differential from those elicited by classical amphetamines (e.g. feeling close to others, increased empathy, increased sociability) are collectively termed as empathetic or entactogenic, and MDMA is considered the prototypical drug producing such effects