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Monday, September 6th, 2010

Vets Get Ecstasy to Treat Their PTSD

Author:     Katie Drummond
Source:     WIRED
Publication Date:     2 September 2010 | 7:00 a.m.
 Link: Vets Get Ecstasy to Treat Their PTSD
Stephan:   Physicians dating back to the Viet Nam era, when SR reader Harvard-trained MD Rick Ingrasci began to work with psycho-active formularies, have known this class of drugs helps individuals suffering from PTSD. But our insane drug policy brought this line of research and therapy to a brutal halt, causing untold suffering, and who knows how many suicides. And even now, when once again their effectiveness is being demonstrated, there is enormous resistance to following a rational policy when it comes to psycho-actives.

A pair of psychiatric experts think they’ve got the answer to the soaring number of troops coming back from war with PTSD: have them undergo intensive psychotherapy – while they’re rolling on ecstasy.

Dr. Michael Mithoefer and Anne Mithoefer, a psychiatric nurse, are the South Carolina pair who’ve been spearheading research into ecstasy, known clinically as MDMA, since 2000. After one successful study on 21 PTSD patients between 2004 and 2008, they’ve now received the final okay from FDA and DEA officials to start a study entirely devoted to former military service members.

‘My sense is that, especially after we published the results of the first study, these institutions are more open to the idea,

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