For an adolescent who has been experimenting with MDMA (Ecstasy), an important component of patient education is that the long-term effects of MDMA include which of the following clin-ical findings?
a. Irreversible passivity
b. Hypersomnia
c. Heart block
d. Bronchoconstriction
A
MDMA causes irreversible destruction of serotonergic neurons, resulting in passivity and in-somnia.
MDMA does not cause hypersomnia, but rather insomnia.
MDMA does not cause heart block or bronchoconstriction.
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