[I wonder if the MDMA is actually having these calming/nurturing effects, if it's placebo, or if the drug is allowing people to go through the same therapeutic process in a faster way somehow. /QUOTE]
Stay see mentioned oxytocin for its empathogenic effects. I believe it is a hormone that is released in childbirth in great amounts and thought to involved in mother- baby bonding.
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With cocaine being schedule 2, any psychiatrist can currently assign cocaine-assisted psychotherapy. I think I would LIVE with a therapist who specializes in that.
No wonder Freud was such a baser.
Unfortuanately not likely. The 2 major FDA aproved users of cocaine are ENT surgical anesthisia because it produces the perfect aminut and tomecorse of numbing while casusing vasoconstriction and less bleeding. The other and where it spent well spread use eas in the ER inthe treatment of severe refractory epitaxis (bloody nose)- 2 much bleedding can cause drowning presumably cauterized if this doesn;t work. It comes in a week solution I thin 3 or 5 % and 10 %. I have a thread somewhere in BL on peoples experienes of coke used in medicine on them.
Anyway, 1--15 years back or longer, there was an eldery doc in New York I think that was using medical coke to treat his depressed patients. He was sanctioned bu his states medical board and had his liscence suspended or lost. Drugs can be used for off label uses but if there was evidence he used it to detox or maintain an addict thats a different situtation. Don't remember the particulars though. Think he haad high profile patients which garnered national attention in the first [;ace.