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ECSTASY AND LSD 'COULD CURE MENTALLY ILL'
#7949963 - 01/29/08 10:55 AM (16 years, 3 days ago) |
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Class A drugs LSD and ecstasy should be used to cure people with chronic mental illnesses, according to a Bristol psychiatrist.
Dr Ben Sessa, working with professors at Bristol University, believes the Class A substances can unlock deep secrets and forgotten traumatic memories in the subconscious and speed up therapy.
He says he is gaining huge support in the scientific community and drug misuse support services for urgent research to be carried out in Britain, where both drugs are controlled.
The 35-year-old consultant psychiatrist, who is not being paid by the university, would like LSD and ecstasy to be prescribed to patients with conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
LSD, or "acid", was used on psychiatric patients in clinical trials in the UK in the 1950s and 60s until it was made illegal.
Dr Sessa believes scientists should be allowed to use Class A drugs to treat people in need of psychotherapy.
He said: "There has been so much scaremongering about these drugs, yet we think nothing of more drastic medical interventions like cutting off someone's arm or leg, or chemotherapy.
"Tens of thousands of young people in Britain are taking them in an uncontrolled environment every week, and they are OK.
"There have been some tragic high-profile deaths, but only a handful, and not a single one from LSD.
"I am not advocating the legalisation of these drugs. We have to be cautious and cannot have a gung-ho approach because they can be dangerous when used recreationally, but we should not be scared of them for the wrong reasons."
He said the substances helped to speed up the process of breaking down a patient's psychological defences to get to the root cause of their problems.
He added: "Drugs like LSD and MDMA (ecstasy) reduce a patient's inhibitions with their therapist so they are more likely to feel more relaxed.
"They increase the empathy and understanding between the patient and the therapist.
"Crucially, they cause a flooding out of repressed conscious material and memories.
"Ecstasy gives the user invariable pleasure every single time.
"Surely a drug of that quality is useful in psychiatry for people who have, for example, post-traumatic stress disorder?
"There are patients who have gone through some painful trauma, such as sexual abuse in childhood, and had 20 or 30 years of unremitting emotional pain.
"They have had all the prescribed drugs on the market and been sectioned in hospital but none of it has worked because whenever they think about their memories they are so overwhelmed with emotion and pain.
"Ecstasy allows them to access these memories and to talk about them for hours."
Every year in the UK, 27 people on average die from ecstasy, although there are no recent recorded deaths from LSD.
Dr Sessa said the drugs were relatively safe because they were not toxic or addictive.
He said: "There is no evidence that the doses for psychotherapy, the equivalent of one ecstasy tablet during a session once a month, will cause any harm whatsoever.
"I am not talking about prescribing the patient with it to take home and use daily - it would only be administered by a doctor during a weekly psychotherapy session, followed by the next three or four without the drug, and then another one with it."
Dr Sessa said the pioneers of the 1950s and 60s studies into the effects of LSD on patients were stopped in their tracks, not by scientific evidence but for political reasons.
"The doctors were forced to stop their research despite some very promising studies," he said.
"I am calling for research to be carried out to find out whether psychedelic drugs are indeed useful.
"To leave that stone unturned is potentially closing the door on that group of patients who might benefit."
He added: "There has been enormous progress recently. More and more medical trials are getting under way throughout the world all the time and the results have been remarkable, but there are none in Britain."
Jeff Walker, director of Bristol Mind, a leading mental health charity, expressed concern at Class A drugs being used in this way.
He said: "It would have to be very well thought through before Class A drugs were used in this way.
"These are substances which can have long-term side effects. I wouldn't be happy with people being used as guinea pigs and therefore I'd be very reluctant to lend my support to anything like this, especially before the scientific basis was fully established."
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Re: ECSTASY AND LSD 'COULD CURE MENTALLY ILL' [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7950053 - 01/29/08 11:23 AM (16 years, 3 days ago) |
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The propaganda is just easyer to believe for some people I guess. Its sad
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Re: ECSTASY AND LSD 'COULD CURE MENTALLY ILL' [Re: Cubie]
#7950109 - 01/29/08 11:38 AM (16 years, 3 days ago) |
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That, and most drug companies would go out of business if their cures worked too well.
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Re: ECSTASY AND LSD 'COULD CURE MENTALLY ILL' [Re: DragonChaser]
#7950229 - 01/29/08 12:20 PM (16 years, 3 days ago) |
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The government wants to deal there drugs too
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Re: ECSTASY AND LSD 'COULD CURE MENTALLY ILL' [Re: CollegeGuy]
#7950256 - 01/29/08 12:27 PM (16 years, 3 days ago) |
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And they will kill or trap any one who gets un their way.
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Re: ECSTASY AND LSD 'COULD CURE MENTALLY ILL' [Re: CollegeGuy]
#7950298 - 01/29/08 12:42 PM (16 years, 3 days ago) |
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If a few doses of LSD or MDMA can fix what Prozac cant in 1000+ doses, its pretty plain to see why drug companies don't want people to use either. Then again, whats the big deal with losing Prozac sales when you make a drug for people who move their legs while trying to get to sleep? I mean, if the required symptom to get an RLS prescription is "the urge to move" then that pretty much encompasses 90% of human beings, so whats the big deal? I'm pretty sick of all the fallacies of drug prohibition. The only way to end this madness is for everyone to carefully craft irrefutable arguments and present them to all of their prohibitionist friends. Its really not that hard.
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