Ecstasy abuse linked to spinal artery rupture

Ecstasy abuse has been linked to a potentially fatal weakening and rupture of the spinal cord artery.

Posterior spinal artery aneurysms — a blood-filled swelling of the spinal cord artery, are rare.

However, doctors in the US discovered one of these aneurysms in a previously healthy teenager who had taken ecstasy or MDMA.