‘It opens your heart’
Canada approves use of ecstasy in study into post-traumatic stress disorder
National Post (Canada)
Friday, December 28, 2012
Friday, December 28, 2012
Exactly a century after ecstasy was first patented, Health Canada has approved the drug’s import for the first Canadian study using the illegal substance in trauma survivors’ therapy. The Journal of Psychopharmacology reported that more than 83% of several PTSD patients treated with MDMA and therapy had completely recovered, “without evidence of harm.” A follow-up study published last month found that the patients still had virtually no symptoms two years later.
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