Equasy - A Harmful Addiction

This article from ENCOD - the European Coaltion for Just and Effective Drug Policies - highlights a new and rising threat to youth around the world. It describes one horrific case of addiction to equasy:

The dangers of equasy were revealed to me as a result of a recent clinical referral of a woman in her early 30’s who had suffered permanent brain damage as a result of equasy-induced brain damage. She had undergone severe personality change that made her more irritable and impulsive, with anxiety and loss of the ability to experience pleasure. There was also a degree of hypofrontality and behavioural disinhibition that had lead to many bad decisions in relationships with poor choice of partners and an unwanted pregnancy. She is unable to work and is unlikely ever to do so again, so the social costs of her brain damage are also very high.

So what is equasy? And what can be done about it? Read the article for the details of this harrowing new social problem.