DEA Approves Study Of Psychedelic Drug MDMA In Treatment Of Seriously Ill Patients

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/18/dea-mdma-study_n_6888972.html

In 2010, a small U.S. study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in the treatment of PTSD found that 83 percent of those who had been treated while on the drug no longer showed symptoms of PTSD. The study was sponsored by MAPS. A follow-up study, published in 2012, found that most of those subjects remained symptom free and that none of them reported harm from the initial use of MDMA… Another small Swiss study, published in 2012 and also sponsored by MAPS, found MDMA to be less effective in treating PTSD, but similarly showed no serious adverse effects for the subjects….