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Parents Warned Of Club Drugs

Three years ago, the Arlington Heights Police Department warned kids about the dangers of marijuana, speed and acid. Those were the good 'ol days. Today, it's all about designer club drugs such as Ecstasy, gamma hydroxybutyric acid and rohypnol - also known as the date rape drug.

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School resource officer Doug Hajek and emergency room physician Troy Foster talked to about 50 parents at South Middle School in Arlington Heights about club drugs Thursday night. Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights sees about 100 kids a month who take various amounts of these drugs, said Foster.
That number is on the rise, and many are as young as 12 years old, Foster added.
"These kids are very surprised at the effects of these drugs," Foster said. "The problem is oftentimes we can't even pick up these drugs in a person's system."
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Kids Seeking Ecstasy Find Drug Leads to Despair

They looked like the kind of teenagers that could be on the pep squad. But instead Dayna Moore and Philip McCarthy were testifying Monday at a Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs -- not to cheer, but to warn their peers about the drug ecstasy.
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Lawmakers Push for an End to 'Ecstasy'

Melissa Ross, an Emory University student, was 19 when she tried the drug ecstasy for the first time. Along with six other friends, Ross took one pill in April prior to an evening of dancing at a popular Atlanta nightclub. By the next day, Ross, a promising sophomore with plans to major in computer science, had died of a heart attack.

"One pill, one time, was all it took to end her life," says Amy Ross, the 26-year-old sister of Melissa Ross.
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Viagra Meets the Rave Scene

One rave fan says the combination of Viagra and ecstasy makes some sense. "Ecstasy makes it so you can't get an erection," says Soren Roinick, a Boston-based member of the group DanceSafe, which promotes "healthier" raves. At the same time, he says, it's not as if every raver's got his hand out for a little blue pill. "Ecstasy lowers all your aggression, including your sexual aggression," he says. "You might bond with someone per se, but generally, people at raves are not going home and sleeping with someone."
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