If approved, MDMA “would be the first novel treatment for PTSD in over two decades,” said one expert. “PTSD patients can feel some hope.”
Ecstasy could soon step off the dance floor and into therapists’ offices.
The Food and Drug Administration usually requires two placebo-controlled trials before it will approve a drug for use — and this latest study is the second to find MDMA is safe and effective at treating PTSD. The results showed that over 86% of people in the MDMA group had a significant reduction in PTSD symptoms, and about 71% improved so much that they no longer even met the criteria for a PTSD diagnosis.Importantly, a significant percentage of the participants in the latest study were Hispanic, Latino or nonwhite, said lead author Dr. Jennifer Mitchell, a neuroscientist at the University of California San Francisco.
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