Ecstasy-Viagra mix alarms doctors Combo can affect heart, anatomy By Donna Leinwand USA TODAY An increasing number of American youths who use the club drug Ecstasy are mixing it with the anti-impotence drug Viagra, leading drug-abuse specialists to warn about the health risks of a combination that users say fuels all-night dancing and marathon sex. The combined drugs -- known in the club scene as ''sextasy'' -- began as a fad among youths in England and Australia. About a year ago, officials of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration began hearing reports that the mixture had become popular in this country's gay party culture. Now, drug-abuse analysts say, anecdotal reports from across the USA indicate that sextasy has become one of the most recent products of a dangerous trend: Young clubgoers taking ''cocktail pills'' that can include as many as a half-dozen drugs. Doctors warn that combining the two drugs can cause heart problems or erections that don't subside for more than four hours, possibly leading to anatomical damage. There have been scattered reports of such injuries across the country, officials say. In Internet chat rooms that cater to those in the club scene, talk of multiple-drug combinations -- particularly Ecstasy and Viagra -- is becoming more common. Drug-abuse specialists who work in Washington state say youths there have told them about the popularity of sextasy pills. ''They are stealing (Viagra) from their next-door neighbors,'' says Ellen Silverman, a policy specialist at Washington state's Department of Social and Health Services. click for complete article; story edited -rH
My guess is that once the info about the anatomical damage becomes widely known the use will drop off. The main thing that keeps some high school athletes from using steroids is when they tell you about what steroids will do to your...ummm..."stuff."
Amazing that people smart enough to figure out that ecstasy and viagra would work to produce such an effect are conversely stupid enough to use it thinking it would be ok.
