Man 'took 40,000 ecstasy tablets'
LONDON. April 8. KAZINFORM Doctors have revealed details of the biggest recorded user of ecstasy - a man estimated to have taken 40,000 ecstasy pills in his life.
At the height of his use, the man - known as "Mr A" - was taking 25 tablets a day, Psychosomatics journal revealed.
The 37-year-old still had trouble with short-term memory problems seven years after he stopped taking the drug.
Doctors at St George's Hospital, London said Mr A's case was extreme, but showed ecstasy's long-term effects.
The doctors said it was the largest reported ecstasy lifetime consumption by one person, the previous being around 2,000 tablets.
Writing in Psychosomatics, they say Mr A reported he had used ecstasy between the ages of 21 and 30.
For two years, he took five tablets every weekend, rising to an average of 3.5 tablets per day for the next three years, then soaring to 25 tablets a day over the next four years.
After "collapsing" three times at parties, Mr A stopped taking ecstasy.
The team say that, while much of the information on Mr A's drug use was self-reported, and therefore could have been affected by his memory problems, his history was confirmed by medical notes taken just after he stopped taking the drug, according to BBC.
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