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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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MDMA Steps Closer to FDA Approval as a Drug, But Now It Needs to Leap

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies believes that MDMA-assisted psychotherapy could be legal by 2021.

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Christine Jun
2016
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MDMA, or Ecstasy, Shows Promise as a PTSD Treatment

Scientists test how pharmaceutical-grade MDMA combines with psychotherapy to help patients with a severe form of PTSD.

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Will Stone
2019
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Psychedelics Could Trigger a ‘Paradigm Shift’ in Mental Health Care

A new review of studies finds that LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA hold potential for treating mental illness.

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Carolyn Gregoire
2015
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The Legal and Illegal Ways People Are Turning to Psychedelics as the Drug Regulator Rejects Reclassification Bid

In Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital, down the hall from the cancer day unit, there's an unassuming room known simply as "The Retreat". This is where a select few volunteers are offered a unique opportunity: to confront their deepest fears under a heavy dose of a psychedelic.

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Geoff Thompson and Benjamin Sveen
2021
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UFC Eyes Psychedelics as Therapy for Fighters’ Brain Injuries

Last month, Ian McCall told HBO’s Real Sports that his 17 years in mixed martial arts led him to a painkiller addiction. “I was medicated and so numbed out from such a young age, I turned into a monster,” he told correspondent David Scott.

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Dustin Foote
2021
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Why Canada Could Be Next to Allow Psychedelic Therapy (And How It’s Already Changing Lives)

Now, as a handful of patients and more recently doctors and therapists have been granted exemptions to use psilocybin, the nation’s federal health agency is considering making changes to existing policies that could open the door to much more than magic mushrooms.

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Amanda Siebert
2020
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Psychedelic Therapy Schools Are Popping Up Like Mushrooms

For hundreds or thousands of dollars, you can get certified to administer mind-altering—and some say, mind-healing—drugs.

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Michelle Lhooq
2021
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The Return of Psychedelics to Counseling: Are We Ready?

Those of us who are professional counselors are perhaps most likely to recognize psychedelic drugs by their recreational or street names — acid, magic mushrooms, ecstasy — and to consider them to be drugs of abuse that may be dangerous to our clients.

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Benjamin Hearn
2020
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MDMA Lauded as ‘Breakthrough’ Therapy for PTSD Patients

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the design of two Phase 3 clinical trials of MDMA for treating PTSD, according to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which is funding and leading the clinical trials.

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Maureen Meehan
2017
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My Adventures with the Trip Doctors

My first psilocybin journey began around an altar in the middle of a second-story loft in a suburb of a small city on the Eastern Seaboard.

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Michael Pollan
2018
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