While both MDMA and psilocybin show promise for hard-to-treat psychiatric disorders, it’s important to keep in mind that the conditions in these studies were strictly controlled and the patients meticulously monitored during treatment. Once approved, MAPS says the drug will be administered in an inpatient setting at DEA-certified clinics by licensed therapists who have been…
In recent years, many studies have been published to show that the illegal drug MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine), also known as ecstasy, can have hugely beneficial, and importantly, permanent effects for those suffering from PTSD … [Those conducting the studies] stress that MDMA is not a be an end all cure; it is no magic pill, but…
The B.C. Centre on Substance Use will conduct the Vancouver trials … Health Canada gave the green light for the latest round of trials, and discussions are slated to begin in February [2018] over what the department will need to see in order to approve the treatment … Erika Dyck, a medical historian at the…
…this young man first learned of a drug called MDMA, still legal at the time. Little did he realize that this would be the beginning of a lifelong quest to legitimize a drug in the eyes of a world in which it would soon become taboo. This journey would take over 35 years … Once…
‘You can’t stop it so what you have to do is regulate the use.” ‘If they had known it was however strong; had they known it was 80mg in that particular pill for instance, they might have taken one or two. There’s no way they would have taken the whole lot.’ What he is proposing…
“This is not a ‘take three pills and call me in the morning’ kind of situation,” Burge said, “At no point will people go to the pharmacist, for example, and pick up a bunch of MDMA and go home and try it … Rather, this is a 12-week course with introductory psychotherapy sessions and then…
Dr George says that it is important to note that “every chronic medical condition can relapse.” But “it doesn’t mean that treatment does not work. They just go back to learning again how to prevent a future relapse.” Referring to the MDMA trial, he adds that “the most important thing is the therapy, not the…
At the time, I’d just started my first semester of college, and my only focus was getting back to class and finishing my degree. I agreed to the terms and walked out of the courtroom, happy to be free, confident the incident was at least mostly behind me. Two decades of constantly having to explain…
Don’t go thinking that ecstasy bought on the streets is good for you though, laboratory studies have shown that only pure MDMA has been proven sufficiently safe for human consumption when taken a limited number of times in moderate doses. After extensive research, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now confirmed it’s…
The FDA says that federal law and internal regulations prohibit the agency from commenting on studies about pending applications or drugs still in development … More than 100 patients have been treated in a series of trials in the U.S., Switzerland and Israel. In the largest to be published, more than 80 percent of participants…
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