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…
At present, it’s difficult to treat PTSD with psychotherapy alone because often the underlying trauma is too difficult for people to relive with a therapist. But previous work suggests that MDMA helps get PTSD patients to a psychological state where they are comfortable working through those memories. In MAPS-sponsored phase II trial including 107 PTSD…
The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has granted breakthrough therapy designation to MDMA (street name, ecstasy ; clinical name, empathy) for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The phase 3 trials will assess the efficacy and safety of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in 200 to 300 participants with PTSD, 18 years of age and older, at…
Cocaine and ecstasy users have been promised they will not be arrested if they take their drugs to the on-site festival lab run by the charity The Loop … Attendees at the Kendal Calling music festival in Cumbria this past weekend were able to get their pills and powders tested for potency and adulteration without…
“Regulators, governments, health economists, health systems, insurers, health-care professionals, and—most importantly—patients,” said George Goldsmith, the former CEO of McKinsey & Company’s TomorrowLab, and an advocate for the kind of therapeutic innovation psychedelic researchers are hoping to achieve. “That’s the next community that actually needs to be engaged here.” For Doblin, it represents a life’s effort,…
Finally in 2010, at the age of 65 and facing 15 years, I presented myself at the U.S. Embassy and turned myself in…I’m very proud of my life. I believe that manufacturing MDMA and Heaven was the right thing to do. Even though I have not taken any psychedelics since 1991, I feel that the…
“It’s just so scary… Jeff Sessions and the drug war, and that we would go backwards after all this work and money,” says Ann Mithoefer, co-therapist on the ongoing MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and PTSD studies funded by MAPS, alongside her husband Michael. Though the FDA is more friendly to psychedelics than ever before, getting the approval…
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