UK - Ecstasy trial planned to test benefits for trauma victims

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Sarah Boseley
guardian.co.uk, Friday 30 September 2011 15.34 BST

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Doctors are planning the first clinical trial of ecstasy in the UK, to see whether the drug can be beneficial to the traumatised survivors of child abuse, rape and war.

Ecstasy and other illegal drugs such as LSD and magic mushrooms are potentially useful in treating people with serious psychological disturbance who cannot begin to face up to their distress, some psychiatrists and therapists believe. But because of public fear and tabloid anger about illegal drugs, scientists say they find it almost impossible to explore their potential.

Professor David Nutt, the psychopharmacologist who used to head the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs until he fell out with the Labour home secretary and was sacked, said: "I feel quite strongly that many drugs with therapeutic potential have been denied to patients and researchers because of the drugs regulation. The drugs have been made illegal in a vain attempt to stop kids using them, but people haven't thought about the negative consequences."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/30/ecstasy-trial-ptsd-sufferers?newsfeed=true

Also on Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8799963/Ecstasy-to-be-used-to-help-war-veterans.html
 
I believe in terms of harm reduction, "Ecstasy" and MDMA should now be differentiated to the public as a mixture of different drugs +MDMA is much more damaging than MDMA by itself.
 
Renz Envy said:
I believe in terms of harm reduction, "Ecstasy" and MDMA should now be differentiated to the public as a mixture of different drugs +MDMA is much more damaging than MDMA by itself.
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I am not asking media outlets to be activists. I am simply asking them to be accurate. That is, after all, their job.
 
i agree that the media should start to differentiate between ecstasy and mdma simply for harm reduction reasons. mdma relatively harmless, ecstasy potentially lethal.
 
most people think that any colorful pill with a stamp is ecstasy. it should be referred to as mdma and not ecstasy for harm reduction.
 
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