As expected, the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic (hereafter referred to as the Clinic) and the various emergency rooms in the San Francisco Bay Area started hearing from MDMA users just as its use was coming into full swing in the summer of 1984. This article will discuss the range of side effects experienced after ingestion of MDMA in an attempt to put this drug into perspective as having both good and bad characteristics for the drug using public.
