Psychedelic Medicine: Using Ecstasy to Treat PTSD
It looks like drug prohibition cost post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) sufferers more than a quarter century. After MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, over 80 percent of sufferers from PTSD no longer meet the diagnostic criteria for PTSD, as compared to only 25 percent in the control group. Before being criminalized 25 years ago, MDMA (Ecstasy) was used by a circle of therapists for a variety of purposes.
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