This is what ecstasy looks like under a microscope

(Image credit: (Maurice Mikkers)In 2014, a few years after graduating art school, Mikkers began working on Micrograph Stories, a project that reveals a different side of the substances we consume every day)

(Image credit: (Maurice Mikkers)After initially experimenting with over-the-counter painkillers and antibiotics, Mikkers got curious about harder drugs, but was unsure how to procure the small samples he ne)

(Image credit: (Maurice Mikkers))

(Image credit: (Maurice Mikkers))

(Image credit: (Maurice Mikkers))

(Image credit: (Maurice Mikkers))

(Image credit: (Maurice Mikkers))

(Image credit: (Maurice Mikkers))

(Image credit: (Maurice Mikkers))

(Image credit: (Maurice Mikkers)To see more of Maurice Mikkers' work from the "Micrograph Stories" project, visit his website.)