Ecstasy Drug Use

United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus concluded hearings to examine the use and effects of the drug ecstasy, what can be done to curb its use by our nation’s youth, and proposed legislation to change the federal sentencing guidelines for ecstasy trafficking, after receiving testimony from Donald R. Vereen, Jr., Deputy Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy; Donnie R. Marshall, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice; Chuck Winwood, Acting Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service, Department of the Treasury; Diana E. Murphy, Chair, United States Sentencing Commission; James R. McDonough, Florida Office of Drug Control, Tallahassee; Steven Rust, Milford Police Department, Milford, Delaware; William S. Jacobs, Jr., University of Florida Department of Psychiatry Division of Addiction Medicine, Gainesville, on behalf of the Gateway Community Services; and two recovering drug-addicted teenagers. close