PREGNANT women who take ecstasy risk causing long-term damage to the brains
of their children, a study on rats has suggested.
“Now we have a real identified risk, whereas before all we could do was
advise pregnant mothers not to take drugs as a precautionary measure,” says
Charles Vorhees, head of the team that made the discovery at the University of
Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio.
“This is a real landmark study,” says Lynn Singer, a paediatrics expert at
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. “It’s the
first developmental study suggesting ecstasy exposure can affect basic…
