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http://www.vg.no/helse/artikkel.php?artid=539400
Original link in norwegian
http://translate.google.com/transla...refox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=NtG
Google translation to english
Norway is the first country to state-funded research on the use of ecstasy in psychiatry.
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The Research Council of Norway has granted 3.5 million to the psychologist and researcher Pål-Ørjan Johansen and fellow Teri Krebs to study whether MDMA - active in the party drug ecstasy - can help people with anxiety.
This makes Norway the first country to publicly support the research on this. Something similar has not happened since Monday at the beginning of the 30-century ended the use of LSD in psychiatry.
There are no other studies of MDMA that is state funded. "It is a quality assurance in getting this support, "says Pål-Ørjan Johansen pleased to VG.
Do you think it is right to give state support to the experiments with MDMA? Discuss on the bottom of the case.
Should decrease the fear
There is already much research on MDMA, including in the United States. However, it is privately funded.
There has been no lack of interest, but until now they have only supported research on the harmful effects of large doses. It is that simply looking at the harmful effects of headache tablets, "said Johansen.
He and Krebs to see if the use of MDMA during therapy makes it easier to treat people with trauma. Patients with trauma often fear to talk about experiences, and the idea is that MDMA should reduce the fear.
This type of treatment has the potential to help with anxiety. There is a lot, "Johansen said.
If not for a long time to publish an article in the prestigious Journal of Psychopharmacology, in which they explain how MDMA works on the brain.
Provides increased control
Johansen believes it is wrong to compare the research they do with the 1970s, the use of LSD in psychiatry.
LSD is interesting, but MDMA works in completely different ways. Moreover, we have learned much new about the treatment of anxiety since the 1970s.
If MDMA makes it easier to talk about things you are afraid, is not that forcing the patient to do something he or she will not?
For the first granted under the informed consent. And it is not so that the patient loses control, so you would do under such as alcohol. On the contrary increases MDMA activity in the part of the brain that has to do with control.
Johansen and Krebs believes that money and public recognition can lead to Norway have one of the leading research on MDMA.
Begeistret Excited
There is always a good sign when the government supports the research, for the guarantee that research with a certain quality.I'm excited to hear that the Norwegian government supports this, "says Professor David Nutt at Imperial College in London.
Nutt is one of Britain's most distinguished professors in psychopharmacology - the study of how the medication works in the brain. He believes that MDMA is less harmful than alcohol.
Original link in norwegian
http://translate.google.com/transla...refox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=NtG
Google translation to english
Norway is the first country to state-funded research on the use of ecstasy in psychiatry.
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The Research Council of Norway has granted 3.5 million to the psychologist and researcher Pål-Ørjan Johansen and fellow Teri Krebs to study whether MDMA - active in the party drug ecstasy - can help people with anxiety.
This makes Norway the first country to publicly support the research on this. Something similar has not happened since Monday at the beginning of the 30-century ended the use of LSD in psychiatry.
There are no other studies of MDMA that is state funded. "It is a quality assurance in getting this support, "says Pål-Ørjan Johansen pleased to VG.
Do you think it is right to give state support to the experiments with MDMA? Discuss on the bottom of the case.
Should decrease the fear
There is already much research on MDMA, including in the United States. However, it is privately funded.
There has been no lack of interest, but until now they have only supported research on the harmful effects of large doses. It is that simply looking at the harmful effects of headache tablets, "said Johansen.
He and Krebs to see if the use of MDMA during therapy makes it easier to treat people with trauma. Patients with trauma often fear to talk about experiences, and the idea is that MDMA should reduce the fear.
This type of treatment has the potential to help with anxiety. There is a lot, "Johansen said.
If not for a long time to publish an article in the prestigious Journal of Psychopharmacology, in which they explain how MDMA works on the brain.
Provides increased control
Johansen believes it is wrong to compare the research they do with the 1970s, the use of LSD in psychiatry.
LSD is interesting, but MDMA works in completely different ways. Moreover, we have learned much new about the treatment of anxiety since the 1970s.
If MDMA makes it easier to talk about things you are afraid, is not that forcing the patient to do something he or she will not?
For the first granted under the informed consent. And it is not so that the patient loses control, so you would do under such as alcohol. On the contrary increases MDMA activity in the part of the brain that has to do with control.
Johansen and Krebs believes that money and public recognition can lead to Norway have one of the leading research on MDMA.
Begeistret Excited
There is always a good sign when the government supports the research, for the guarantee that research with a certain quality.I'm excited to hear that the Norwegian government supports this, "says Professor David Nutt at Imperial College in London.
Nutt is one of Britain's most distinguished professors in psychopharmacology - the study of how the medication works in the brain. He believes that MDMA is less harmful than alcohol.
