Drugs destroying friendships, marriages and lives

Dancing at Mambo Night at Zouk.

By Shaffiq Alkhatib and Eunice Toh The New Paper Saturday, Aug 04, 2012

As a self-confessed health freak, he takes great pains to look his best by exercising regularly and watching his diet.

But Zack (not his real name) has witnessed people he knew abusing their bodies by consuming illegal drugs.

The well-built 30-something Singaporean bachelor who is now based overseas said he used to be a party animal. Despite his hard partying ways, he insisted that alcohol was his only poison.

But he has seen his friends abuse Ecstasy, ketamine and methamphetamine, also known as Ice, which has in recent years, become a popular party drug.

Zack, who works in marketing, said that he started partying in the late 90s.

That was when he first saw an Ecstasy pill.

He told The New Paper over the phone last week: "I was having pre-party drinks at a friend's place when one of the guests took out some multi-coloured pills and started distributing them to the others.

"I knew it was Ecstasy as I had read about it before. He offered me one and I refused. I was tempted to try but I decided not to take any risks.

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