Some 13 million Americans struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Existing therapies only bring relief for a fraction of patients, and new treatments are sorely needed, according to psychiatrists wrestling with the scale of the problem. So, there was distinct disappointment when an advisory committee at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted earlier this month against a therapy that many had hoped could offer the first new treatment for PTSD in 25 years.
A number of experts who study psychedelics have since spoken out in support of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD and have sharply criticised the recommendations of the FDA’s Psychopharmacological Drugs Advisory Committee. But some are still optimistic that the treatment might be approved when the FDA delivers its final decision in August.
Ahead of the meeting, FDA approval of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD seemed likely, says Sandeep Nayak, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, who investigates psychedelics as treatments for substance use and mood disorders. About two-thirds of people who received three sessions of MDMA and talk therapy no longer qualified for a PTSD diagnosis at the end of two Phase 3 clinical trials.
It’s an outcome that is “almost double that of existing medications”, says Gül Dölen, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who researches the mechanisms of how psychedelics achieve therapeutic effects. “What’s more, [the treatment] led to durable improvements in these patients lasting at least six months.”
It’s fine if you didn’t read or don’t like that study.
Those symptoms resolved by psilocybin are the same as the PTSD symptoms that MDMA hopes to treat one day.
You not liking a particular medication doesn’t make it less effective or safe for people.
You might want to check out the news recently though, MDMA is specifically not being approved last weekend this week because a safe therapy has not been found, unlike with psilocybin.
Psilocybin is safe, simple and effective.
Controlled studies have born this out.
You do know the hope is not to treat symptoms but underlying disorders, right?
That’s close.
Ptsd is much more effectively treated when you deal with the symptoms and the disorder itself instead of just focusing on The disorder and ignoring the symptoms.
Luckily, psilocybin therapies work on both symptoms and disorders.
I mentioned symptoms specifically because MDMA therapies are specifically focused on the symptoms right now that psilocybin already effectively treats.
So you can take the effective and perfectly safe psilocybin therapy regimen to alleviate symptoms and the disorder itself while focusing on supplementing that treatment with more traditional therapies to dig deeper into the disorder.
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I remember you had those blinders about MDMA.
It’s easier for you to believe whatever it is you believe than to accept the scientific and therapeutic conclusions that disagree with your beliefs.
Ask for slanting the narrative. However you feel like it, yeah go for broke.
The numbers and consistent facts make it pretty easy for me to fix your mistakes anyway.
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You claim to identify external projection by critiquing your own misunderstandings and assumptions about others.
I’m glad you personally like Molly and find it helpful.
It doesn’t change how effective and safe psilocybin is.
You can like Molly 20% or 100% or a million percent personally, but that doesn’t have any bearing on how safe and effective other therapies are at treating the same symptoms.
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I understand it’s easier for you to pretend I said something different than I said, but make-believe is not as convincing as you think it is.
MDMA is not ready as a therapy yet.
It isn’t effective yet against the symptoms or disorder, and it isn’t safe yet.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/06/1093327/fda-advisors-just-said-no-to-the-use-of-mdma-as-a-therapy/amp/
You should do all the drugs you want, drugs are great, but you shouldn’t tell people not to take effective and safe therapies because you personally enjoy a drug that may have benefits in the future.
Psilocybin is here.
It helps with these problems.
MDMA does not yet have an effective therapy regimen.
9 out of 11 FDA researchers say:
Hold your horses
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Question and enjoy whatever you like.
Meditation is not much safer than psilocybin.
Magic mushrooms are twice as safe as coffee.
Just because MdmA doesn’t work, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have to use any therapies at all that do work.
This is the problem with your approach and conclusions.
You’re so devoted to your personal experience with MDMA that when MDMA has been rejected, your next question is so then there’s nothing?
That is not the logical conclusion.
The treatment you prefer is not yet safe or effective.
That’s fine. There is a safe and effective treatment already.
Whatever else you are reading into this conclusion is your own.
There’s nothing wrong with having effective solutions that don’t jive with your personal preferences.
One has to wonder how many drugs you may have ingested that would make you think saying the same thing over and over again, without verifiable scientific proof (that is not simply a copy-pasta of an article in a tech mag) somehow proves your point.
You don’t believe scientific articles or studies.
Convincing rebuttal.