The woman uses her personal experiences with the drug Ecstasy to warn others of its dangerous effects. She grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania but moved to New York City to a  acting school, and it was here that she first came into c   with drugs. Many of her school friends were drug users and, in an effort to f   in, she began to use them too. Her story is t   of many drug addicts. She went from someone who used drugs for fun to someone who couldn’t live without them. Finally she had some kind of a b   . Luckily for her, her mother drove to New York to r   her and she ended up back in Pennsylvania in hospital. She was s  with horror when she saw her brain scan which showed that Ecstasy had had p   effects on her brain.