'Ecstasy' is too good a name

'Ecstasy' is too good a name

DENPASAR, Bali: Ecstasy is too good a label for the
stimulant pills increasingly gaining popularity among wealthy
teenagers and rave partygoers in cities, a psychiatrist insists.

"If the name is maintained, it will make the damned pills even
more popular," Robert Reverger, the director of the Bangli mental
hospital, said yesterday.

He suggested that Ecstasy be renamed PPK, a local acronym that
stands for "destructive pills", to create a horrific image for
the dangerous drug.

Reverger argued that "ecstasy" actually pertains to a glorious
religious feeling of being close to God and thus the name is
misleading.

Reverger is one of many to come up with another name for the
pills. Many people laughed when a Jakarta newspaper called them
pill kuda binal (sexy horse pills). (23/mds)