Ukraine: ecstasy, mushrooms to fight war trauma
…calls to permit their use in psychotherapy have been growing in Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Experts in Ukraine are appealing to parliament to facilitate the therapeutic use of these substances. Ksenia Voznitsyna, director of the Ukrainian Health Ministry’s Center for Veterans’ Mental Health and Rehabilitation, is a leading voice in the campaign. “We are driving these changes forward,” she [said]. It’s chiefly in the US that the lobby for drug-assisted psychotherapy has been growing. Advocates there have a powerful ally: the organizations for war veterans of the US military. The US government’s Veterans Affairs Department likewise backs the use of MDMA in PTSD therapy. Experts anticipate that such treatment could be authorized as early as 2024. What’s important, she says, is that Ukraine’s parliament promptly legalizes it so that access to controlled use of MDMA and psychedelics in Ukraine is made.
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Ukraine: Ecstasy, mushrooms to fight war trauma
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