DRUG CHIEF SOUNDS WARNING

President Clinton's drug policy advisor warned of an "explosive
increase" in the use of the drug Ecstasy by young people who are
poorly educated about new substances they use to get high or build
muscles.

Briefing reporters on his final report about America's drug problem,
Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey noted that drug education and prevention
efforts have not kept up with the onslaught of new drugs such as
Ecstasy, known chemically as methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA.
Use of MDMA, once mainly an East Coast drug, has spread rapidly across
the country, McCaffrey said, with an "explosive increase in exposure
among our children."