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Kids Seeking Ecstasy Find Drug Leads to Despair

Panel Chair Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) says one government study shows ecstasy use among eighth graders has increased 82% between 1999 and 2000. In addition, the number of those using the illicit substance has increased 75% in just the last three months.

"Ecstasy is entering our country in ever-growing quantities ... the increase in use by our nation's youth has reached arguably epidemic proportions ... and kids don't think it's a harmful drug," said Lieberman.

According to the White House Office on National Drug Control Policy, ecstasy use among 12th graders during the year 1999-2000 rose from 40.1% to 51.4% -- the largest single increase for this group of children in the 26 years the data have been collected.

Admissions to the emergency room for ecstasy-related reactions in the U.S. have increased from just 250 in 1994 to more than 4,000 last year. From 1994 to 1999, the number of deaths associated with ecstasy has climbed to 71, and most of those were in the last few years.

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