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The Sunday Times (London) recently published "Ecstasy is the Key to Treating ...
The Sunday Times (London) recently published "Ecstasy is the Key to Treating PTSD," an in-depth piece on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in people with PTSD, focusing on Dr. Mithoefer's MAPS-supported study and featuring quotes from MAPS president Rick Doblin and British psychiatrist Ben Sessa.
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The list of articles and information on potential risks of MDMA now includes ...
The list of articles and information on potential risks of MDMA now includes a report of estimated risk of MDMA in people with hepatitis C. While there is nothing in the medical literature on the topic, this report draws on information about MDMA, heptatitis C, and drugs used to treat it.
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A letter by Krebs and Johansen commenting on and questioning the findings of ...
A letter by Krebs and Johansen commenting on and questioning the findings of the prospective study of cognitive function in ecstasy users is now published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. The letter addresses issues relating to the nature of the test score differences, the existence of long-term retest effects, participant durg use history and effects of anxiety arising from stereotype threat. Schilt and colleagues' reply appears alongside the letter. They respond to questions concerning retest learning effects and re-analyze data with respect to drug use history. Krebs and Johansen are conducting an examination of psychological defense mechanisms in experimental sessions from Mithoefer's randomized, placebo-controlled study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in people with PTSD.
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MDMA is not a type of methamphetamine: Despite its title, the recent Science ...
MDMA is not a type of methamphetamine: Despite its title, the recent Science Daily piece "Club Drugs Inflict Damage Similar To Traumatic Brain Injury" is about studies on the effects of methamphetamine, not MDMA, and describes findings in rats, not people. Read a brief commentary on this news report.
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Sessa and Nutt have recently published an editorial in the Journal of Psycho ...
Sessa and Nutt have recently published an editorial in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, "MDMA, politics and medical research: Have we thrown the baby out with the bathwater?", speaking out against the effects of politics and regulation on medical research with MDMA and in favor of more basic and medical research. In their editorial, Sessa and Nutt discuss the costs to the research enterprise imposed by regulation of MDMA, and proposes at least three avenues of further research. The piece is provocative and uneven, but makes for encouraging reading for supporters of MDMA psychotherapy research.
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