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superpatriotman

(6,249 posts) Wed Nov 30, 2016, 07:13 PM Nov 2016

FDA Approves Trials to use Ecstasy to Treat PTSD

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/us/ptsd-mdma-ecstasy.html?_r=0

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After three doses of MDMA administered under a psychiatrist’s guidance, the patients reported a 56 percent decrease of severity of symptoms on average, one study found. By the end of the study, two-thirds no longer met the criteria for having PTSD. Follow-up examinations found that improvements lasted more than a year after therapy.

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They would be better off with Marijuana HockeyMom Nov 2016 #1

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)

1. They would be better off with Marijuana

Reply to superpatriotman (Original post)

Wed Nov 30, 2016, 07:46 PM

Nov 2016

than that nasty, nasty drug originally used to calm down wild horses. Date Rape Drug.

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