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Hurt or heal? Drug trials show patient benefits
    #5636974 - 05/16/06 10:46 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Hurt or heal? Drug trials show patient benefits
May 16, 2006 - Therapeutics Daily

TWO major trials under way in the United States are testing the medicinal benefits of MDMA, the key ingredient in ecstasy pills.

In one trial, researchers are investigating MDMA's use in addressing anxiety caused by pain in terminally ill patients. Anxiety (and depression) exacerbates pain, so alleviating this is important for palliative care.

``What MDMA does is it appears to break that anxiety component and therefore reduces the suffering of people with terminal disease,'' says Royal Adelaide Hospital's Dr David Caldicott.

In another trial, MDMA is being administered during counselling sessions for sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder, to soothe and help them open up to their therapist and delve into their ordeal as a means of overcoming it.

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, the organisation sponsoring the research, says the results have been promising, and there are plans for pilot studies in Israel and Switzerland.

``If the preliminary results we are getting in our US pilot study (11 out of 20 subjects already treated) continue to the completion of the study, we'll have solid evidence that MDMA-assisted psychotherapy could become a safe and alternative treatment for PTSD,'' the group's founder, Rick Doblin, says in an email sent to Democrats Senator Sandra Kanck.

Researchers in Spain also conducted a similar trial for female rape victims.


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