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FDA May Soon Allow MDMA Prescriptions for PTSD

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭ygolometsipe


    Who cares about the FDA, I wana hear what the IFA have to say about MDMA.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,064 ✭✭✭aaakev


    I bet the GAA will keep their mouths shut about this too the bastards


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Sure isn’t that what it was used for originally.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    aaakev wrote: »
    I bet the GAA will keep their mouths shut about this too the bastards


    Bastards have been keeping very quiet on this one


    Typical


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    Yanks running out of new meds so they're just re-hashing the old ones.

    Lazy.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    Don't see any problem with this. A very safe drug when administered properly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭ygolometsipe


    aaakev wrote: »
    I bet the GAA will keep their mouths shut about this too the bastards

    Typical! And their in the best position going forward to tackle it.

    :)

    I'm going to write a letter to Ireland's Own.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    Noveight wrote: »
    Yanks running out of new meds so they're just re-hashing the old ones.

    Lazy.

    they're make new drugs all the time, like UHT, but there's no demand for them because they're shíte


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭FionnK86


    Michael Daragh McAuley never hurt anyone!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,778 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Probalem with MDMA as a medicine is that the effects only last a few hours and you can't really take it more often than once or twice a month.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,574 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Probalem with MDMA as a medicine is that the effects only last a few hours and you can't really take it more often than once or twice a month.

    it's not intended to be taken more often than that in the same way as an SSRI would be, but more occasional or semi regular use during a therapy session or similar to help work through particular issues or traumas which may be contributing to the patients depression and/or PTSD.
    Ecstasy has long been a favorite at trance parties and raves because of its unique ability to flood users with intense feelings of euphoria. But as a byproduct, it also reduces fear and imbues users with a deep sense of love and acceptance of themselves and others — the perfect conditions for trauma therapy.

    By giving doses of MDMA at the beginning of three, eight-hour therapy sessions, researchers say they have helped chronic PTSD patients process and move past their traumas


    In clinical trials with 107 patients closely monitored by the FDA, 61 percent reported major reductions in symptoms — to the point where they no longer fit the criteria for PTSD. Follow-up studies a year later found 67 percent no longer had PTSD.

    “If you were to design the perfect drug to treat PTSD, MDMA would be it,” said Rick Doblin, who three decades ago founded the California nonprofit behind the clinical trials.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭ygolometsipe


    Probalem with MDMA as a medicine is that the effects only last a few hours and you can't really take it more often than once or twice a month.

    "you can't really take it more often than once or twice a month"

    That's something I never understood about weekend ravers. If you take MDMA every weekend, I thought the effect should lessen even if you take a larger amount.
    It can only release so much dopamine et al..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,360 ✭✭✭jprboy


    Is this the MPLA
    Or is this the UDA
    Or is this the IRA
    I thought it was the U.K.
    Or just another country


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