THERE can be no doubt that the prospect of hundreds of thousands of young people deliberately laying themselves open to Parkinson’s disease is truly frightening. So when a leading journal publishes evidence linking the illness to one of the most commonly used recreational drugs of our time, as Science did last week with ecstasy – it makes sense to sit up and take note.
Doubly so, when the study states that just a single night’s dabbling with the drug may be all it takes to trigger the type of brain damage that could in time give you Parkinson’s.
Triply so, when…
