Mdma could be a prescription drug by 2021

[poledriver]

MDMA COULD BE A PRESCRIPTION DRUG BY 2021

A recent Ask Me Anything feature on Reddit featured experts from the Multi-disciplinary Association For Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) answering all sorts of questions about drug research and effects.

Amid the mythbusting – marijuana smoke is not carcinogenic revealed MAPS director Rick Dobin, nor is it possible to 're-trip' years later on LSD – was an update on medical trials of MDMA, which is, of course, the active ingredient in ecstasy or Molly.

According to MAPS Director of Clinical Research, Amy Emerson, clinical trials of MDMA psychotherapy are currently in 'Phase 2'. At least two larger 'Phase 3' studies are required to prove safety and efficacy and these are planned for between 2016 and 2020, before the sponsor of the studies submits a new drug application to the Federal Drug Agency (in the US) and the European Medicines Agency - all of which means that there could be a decision on whether MDMA becomes a prescription medicine by 2021.

Some of the best questions / answers from the session are selected here.

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With some comments -

http://www.mixmag.net/words/news/mdma-could-be-a-prescription-drug-by-2021

 

[poledriver]

I think this article is related to -

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/701769-MAPS-Crew-AMA-on-Reddit

Merge if you wont to mods.

 

[slimvictor]

Sign me up for a script!

 

[highhooked]

Fucking pharmaceutical mdma! Ahhh omnomnomom

 

[neversickanymore]

I think im developing PTSD from all my time in the trenches of the goddamn drug war.. I think a couple of these may be just the ticket.

 

[brutus]

These are baby steps, but good luck finding a doctor with the balls willing to prescribe MDMA even under strict guidelines. They would face all sorts of scrutiny from outside of the government as well.

 

[Pushton]

Can anyone say sex therapist??

 

[neversickanymore]

These are baby steps, but good luck finding a doctor with the balls willing to prescribe MDMA even under strict guidelines.

You grossly underestimate my abilities

 

[MagickalKat777]

You grossly underestimate my abilities

For real. I've never failed to convince doctors to give me whatever I want. Even when I was inpatient psych, I was able to negotiate benzodiazepines in exchange for taking Geodon while I was there.

Hell I got a benzo script out of the county doctors who are specifically trained not to use them.

Either way, by the time MDMA is out as a prescription, it likely will have been replaced by a new class of drugs altogether. Amphetamines are going to be old school by then