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This is delightful news. I really hope in the coming decades the research of organizations like MAPS get more attention and become completely mainstream.

Making psychedelics Schedule 1 set us back decades that could have been spent doing important research on a large number of mental health conditions.



MAPS (multidisciplinary association of psychedelic studies) is systematically demonstrating the positive effects of psychedelics.

Their most impressive work is in PTSD. In Phase 2 trials, they took people with established PTSD (for years) and undertook ~3 guided psychotherapy sessions with MDMA. Within 2 months, 53% no longer met criteria for PTSD and at 12 months 68% didn't.

Far more efficacious that anything else we have. Powerful tool for psychologic healing.


What about the control groups in those trials? How many people?

Hard to tell how effective the treatment is with nothing to compare to.


22% in the drug-free therapy control groups. It's a pretty major difference.

Psychedelics work at changing the mind and they work astonishingly well, provided their consumption accompanies skilled counseling.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-019-05249-5


EMDR also works.




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