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I don't think people saying 'well I'm fine' is of much value. Yes, case studies ARE evidence, but the lowest quality evidence. Survivorship bias ALWAYS exists around drug use because people who were harmed tend not to join a HR comminuty after the fact.
You need a large cohort size will always show ouliers for whom MDMA usse appears to produce no measurable ill effects.
I found this meta-analysis in Nature Psychopharmacology. You can download this. Meta-analysis from a high-impact journal A meta-anaysis of 23 human studies.
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Of course the problem with any human study is the ethics. You can't sacrifice people, section their brains and directly test for damage. So association is all you can realistically say. But those P values are quite small...
You need a large cohort size will always show ouliers for whom MDMA usse appears to produce no measurable ill effects.
I found this meta-analysis in Nature Psychopharmacology. You can download this. Meta-analysis from a high-impact journal A meta-anaysis of 23 human studies.
MDMA use and neurocognition: a meta-analytic review - Psychopharmacology
Rationale To determine the association between MDMA misuse and neurocognition using meta-analysis. Objective Separate analyses were conducted based on two sets of inclusion/exclusion criteria. A relatively stringent set required that the subjects be matched on important moderator variables...
Of course the problem with any human study is the ethics. You can't sacrifice people, section their brains and directly test for damage. So association is all you can realistically say. But those P values are quite small...
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