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MDMA’s Journey from Molly to Medicine

By Alfonso Serrano — 2017

MDMA-assisted psychotherapy readies for phase III trials, a last step before possible prescription use in PTSD patients.

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Psilocybin Therapy May Work as Well as Common Antidepressant

The first randomized controlled trial to compare the illicit psychedelic psilocybin with a conventional selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant found that the former improved symptoms of depression just as well on an established metric—and had fewer side effects.

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Zoe Cormier
2021
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The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same.

Though researchers are still trying to understand the cognitive and therapeutic mechanics of psychedelics, they have concluded that psilocybin, DMT and other psychoactive chemicals can help people feel more tolerance, understanding and empathy.

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Andrew Jacobs
2021
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Can Microdosing Psychedelics Improve Your Mental Health?

There is an emerging push within the scientific community to study these known recreational drugs as treatments for psychiatric conditions that could potentially be more effective with fewer side effects than traditional psychiatric medications.

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Isabelle Grabski
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How Should We Do Drugs Now?

While we can now begin to glimpse an end to the drug war, it is much harder to envision what the drug peace will look like. How will we fold these powerful substances into our society and our lives so as to minimize their risks and use them most constructively?

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Michael Pollan
2021
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A Psychedelic Drug Passes Big Test for PTSD Treatment

In an important step toward medical approval, MDMA, the illegal drug popularly known as Ecstasy or Molly, was shown to bring relief to those suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder when paired with talk therapy.

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Rachel Nuwer
2021
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Psychedelics and Race: A Profile of Dr. Monnica T. Williams

The exuberant “renaissance” of studies researching psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in the past twenty years has not sufficiently included the enrollment of racially diverse participants, a problem that psychedelic science and clinical research shares with mainstream psychiatry

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Patricia Kubala
2020
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Introducing Ayahuasca

Amazonian healing traditions collide with Western medical sensibilities.

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Zoe Jahn, Monnica T. Williams
2019
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Could the Embrace of Psychedelics Lead to a Mental-Health Revolution?

The last time I was on ketamine, I was hooked up to an IV following surgery. This time, the drug—in general medical use as an anesthetic since 1970—arrived on my doorstep courtesy of Mindbloom, a new telemedicine company specializing in ketamine-based psychedelic therapy.

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Maya Singer
2021
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Can MDMA Be Used to Treat PTSD?

Although ecstasy has been linked to long-term neurological effects and even death—associations that some experts dispute—MDMA has proven safe and non-addictive in some clinical studies. Moreover, MDMA may be effective when combined with psychotherapy to treat PTSD.

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Naveed Saleh
2020
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Ecstasy as a Remedy for PTSD? You Probably Have Some Questions.

The drug known by the street names Ecstasy or Molly could be a promising treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a new study.

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Dave Philipps
2018
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