First, scientists warned that the so-called "designer" drug ecstacy could kill you; now, a human being with tenuous connections to celebrity has dropped the drug and then dropped dead.

Brent Edward Shapiro, a son of O.J. Simpson's lawyer Robert Shapiro, went to a football game last weekend and took ecstasy at a party. His girlfriend found him non-functional and took him to L.A.'s not-very-trendy Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He died without having a chance to say thank you to the person who had given him the pill.

Ecstacy is the street name for 4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine. Users can not recall the scientific term for the drug because their neurotransmitters have been depleted by the drug itself. It is a recognized neurotoxin. One study showed that ecstasy impaired the mental development of neonatal rats. When PETA finds out, they are going to be pissed! (By Scott Rose)