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Safer forms of Ecstacy

TheDEA.org said:
Since FDA regulations specifically require a drug to have a therapeutic benefit (ie. it can diagnose, cure, or help a medical problem).
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It could cure depression, panic attacks etc.
 
^^ The problem is that MDMA can't be taken regularly to achieve this effect... Though you can achieve "breakthroughs", the depression may reccur later...

I still feel it has major therapeutic value in the breakthrough regard, and this is what MAPS is trying to prove at the moment.

As a chronic administration antidepressant MDMA fares extremely poorly; you might as well use the SSRIs for that.

I'm also concerned about how the trials will go statistically -- whether the breakthroughs in patients are statistically significant. I hope so.
 
If only GHB weren't a CNS depressant, it would be the ultimate antidepressant. Even though it is a depressant, my grades considerably improved when I was a G addict. I know why they call it liquid ecstacy!

Maybe low doses of GHB (time-released) combined with a stimulant (e.g. adderal/ritalin) would be more viable?
 
^^ same reason that they allow stimulants for cataplexy.... there's very few treatments for it, and people with cataplexy have major problems functioning in society (to the point of danger). To deny medical treatment to people with narcolepsy is abhorent in my opinion; it's a terrible, terrible disease.

The other major problem is GHB's steep dose-response curver... which I'm sure you know all about.
 
VelocideX said:
The other major problem is GHB's steep dose-response curver... which I'm sure you know all about.
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Hence the reason for a time released formula.
 
A time-released formula still doesn't circumvent the issue. Even if you're releasing the dose slowly, the difference between a dose that does anything and an overdose is still small.

One would need to be verrry careful to tailor it to body-weight.

And what about an overdose? One of the big selling points of the SSRIs is that they're (relatively) safe in overdose, offering a huge advantage over the TCAs...

If you marketed a time-release formula, taking one more pill than necessary could land someone in hospital.
 
They would have to make it a requirement that anyone using the product would have to have one of those devices that are used on alcoholics. This makes the person violently ill after drinking any alcohol.

It's all simple really - just educating people about the dangers of mixing GHB and alcohol.
 
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