At this unusual resort, there are social workers and psychotherapists on staff. A social worker graciously agreed to a consult for me, we spoke this morning; a positive, validating experience.
I went into detail, as much as I could, about the relative who abuses - or could be past tense, abused - Ecstasy.
And the social worker, whose curriculum vitae includes treatment centers, confirmed that Ecstasy affects that part of the brain that contains L-dopamine. And guess what … Ecstasy doesn't increase the L-dopamine, it depletes the L-dopamine. The social worker went on to tell me -- this is how ignorant I am -- that the amount of L-dopamine a person has is a limited amount to begin with.
So Ecstasy is capable of taking away the little that one has.