After 9 years of intensive use of the drug ecstasy, a man stands in the supermarket, but is not able to recall what he just put in his shopping basket. An exceptional case has shed a new light on the consequences of the use of the drug ecstasy. Because 3,4-methyleendioxymethamfetamine is a relatively new drug it has been hard to investigate the long-term consequences that this drug might have on the brain.