The strange case of the man who took 40,000 ecstasy pills in nine years

The Guardian (UK) ^ | April 4, 2006 | by David McCandless

[OB1kNOb]

"Dave's not here, man!"

[ishabibble]

DUDE...where's my brain?

[pepsionice]

Their numbers are far-fetched. I'd be guessing half that amount...otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to function throughout most of his life. As for his future...forget it...he is finished and will be sitting in a hospital...getting government-paid healthcare for the rest of his life. Guess who pays....

[zeugma]

No. Total bogosity. I am well aware of these type of claims. The same were made for LSD or psilicin or mescaline by Tim Leary or Ram Das/Alpert and other lesser known charlatans over the years. Aldous Huxley wrote that nonsensical garbage book about mescaline for example.

Think what you like, but the drug had been in use successfully in professional settings since the 20s.  It's only when it suddenly got "popular" amongst the younger crowds that it was removed from the market.

[tallhappy]

Think what you like, but the drug had been in use successfully in professional settings since the 20s.

Snake oil. People believe that works too.

[Horatio Gates]

Yeah, it should be Mr X.

40,000 ecstacy pills? Thats a lot of unecessary hugging and techno music under the bridge.

[Sir Gawain]

The doctors at St George's Medical School may think Mr. A took MDMA, but the truth is they don't know what he took. Neither does he. It could have been anything.

Bingo. Non-story.

[stevio]

I've given it up for Lent. I don't drink that much, at least one or two per night, and 4-8 on a party night which was usually 2-3 nights per week. I sometimes miss it at night but in the morning I'm glad I didn't. I remind myself how good I feel and consider continuing the abstinence after Easter. Good luck to you and God bless you.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

You're right of course, again.

[voteconstitutionparty]

To be equivalent it would have to be a story about the largest amount of alcohol ever consumed by a single person.

[Stone Mountain]

I wish. I should have remembered the case of the late Carroll (forgetting his full name) the actor who played Archie Bunker. He lost his son to an overdose and shortly afterward the genuinely grief-striken man was on television saying his son would not have died if heroin was legalized! Absolutely batty!

The way I remember it was that Carroll O'Connor held his son virtually blameless in his own death, but blamed the guy who sold his son the drugs and tried (unsucessfully) to get him tried for murder. I'd have a lot more respect for the guy if he had acknowledged his own son's responsibility in what happened to him.

[aculeus]

I have the same memory as you but that he also advocated legalization.

[Bigg Red]

that's why I said a guy"like this"...refering to America and similar drug abuse cases.

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Okay, I see.

[dighton]

Congratulations on the five years, and best wishes for continued success.