Ecstasy trial planned to test benefits for trauma victims

Sarah Boseley
Guardian

Oct 1, 2011

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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2 Responses to “Ecstasy trial planned to test benefits for trauma victims”

  1. There is much to be said for the homologs of the neurohormones. Now with the ending of Fluoridation and the begining of mental health medecine study, all the people of the world can and will move forward.
    It is only sad that we have lost / wasted 30 years of human development, better late than never.

  2. NEATO! Where do I sign up?

    A hundred years ago, COCAINE was prescribed or recommended for EVERYTHING.
    Morphine was and still is the most magical medicine. But opium and heroin are illegal.
    “X” doesn’t do much compared to mushrooms, and virtually nothing when compared to the king of all psychotropes, LSD.
    But I bet most, if not all, maladies can be temporarily or permanently resolved with some chronic… Marijuana. It’s God’s medicine.

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