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MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans!
#8063317 - 02/24/08 04:23 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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This email from Rick Doblin was in my in-box this morning:
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On Saturday, February 23, 2008, after more than a decade of hard work, Dr. John Halpern conducted the first experimental session in his study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in twelve subjects with treatment-resistant anxiety associated with advanced-stage cancer. Dr. Halpern is also conducting a major five-year NIDA-funded study into the neurocognitive risks of heavy use of Ecstasy, enhancing his ability to balance the risks and benefits of MDMA. This historic start of the MDMA/cancer anxiety study would not have been possible without the contributions of many people, including his co-investigators, the members of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) at both the Lahey Clinic Medical Center and McLean Hospital, both institutions' administrators and staff, and federal regulatory officials at FDA and even DEA. The study's $250,000 budget is funded by Mr. Peter Lewis through a direct grant to McLean Hospital. MAPS assisted Dr. Halpern in the protocol design and approval process.
This experimental session was the first time in 42 years that a psychedelic was administered to a research subject at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Walter Pahnke, who conducted the classic Good Friday experiment in 1962, reported on the conclusion of his psilocybin research at Harvard in an unpublished paper written in 1966 (PDF).
The renaissance in psychedelic research has begun. It is now time to prove what we have been claiming for decades, that psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy can be beneficial to some patients in carefully controlled clinical settings. The promising results from MAPS' US MDMA/PTSD research, and the start of Dr. Halpern's MDMA/cancer anxiety study, suggest that the eventual approval of psychedelic psychotherapy is becoming more than a dream.
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: Diploid]
#8063597 - 02/24/08 08:32 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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In another ten years it will be available through therapy with a psychiatrist considering the staunch beliefs of the DEA.
This is a great start for MDMA.
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: Diploid]
#8063945 - 02/24/08 10:52 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Diploid said: The renaissance in psychedelic research has begun. It is now time to prove what we have been claiming for decades, that psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy can be beneficial to some patients in carefully controlled clinical settings
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: xpl0de]
#8064014 - 02/24/08 11:12 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Back in '97/98' when I started college in Baltimore, John Hopkins was looking for tons of E users to study.
I backed out after I realized they wanted to do spinal taps on everyone and then found out what a spinal tap actually was.
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: Diploid]
#8064041 - 02/24/08 11:16 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Great news.
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: Diploid]
#8064112 - 02/24/08 11:33 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Diploid said: This email from Rick Doblin was in my in-box this morning:
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On Saturday, February 23, 2008, after more than a decade of hard work, Dr. John Halpern conducted the first experimental session in his study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in twelve subjects with treatment-resistant anxiety associated with advanced-stage cancer. Dr. Halpern is also conducting a major five-year NIDA-funded study into the neurocognitive risks of heavy use of Ecstasy, enhancing his ability to balance the risks and benefits of MDMA. This historic start of the MDMA/cancer anxiety study would not have been possible without the contributions of many people, including his co-investigators, the members of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) at both the Lahey Clinic Medical Center and McLean Hospital, both institutions' administrators and staff, and federal regulatory officials at FDA and even DEA. The study's $250,000 budget is funded by Mr. Peter Lewis through a direct grant to McLean Hospital. MAPS assisted Dr. Halpern in the protocol design and approval process.
This experimental session was the first time in 42 years that a psychedelic was administered to a research subject at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Walter Pahnke, who conducted the classic Good Friday experiment in 1962, reported on the conclusion of his psilocybin research at Harvard in an unpublished paper written in 1966 (PDF).
The renaissance in psychedelic research has begun. It is now time to prove what we have been claiming for decades, that psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy can be beneficial to some patients in carefully controlled clinical settings. The promising results from MAPS' US MDMA/PTSD research, and the start of Dr. Halpern's MDMA/cancer anxiety study, suggest that the eventual approval of psychedelic psychotherapy is becoming more than a dream.
Haha, you beat me to it. This is good news to start out a beautiful day!
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#8064425 - 02/24/08 12:52 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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i wanna know where they get the MDMA from, if its synthesized, or if the dea gave them pure tablet's or powder that they seized in a bust.
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: nk pakelika]
#8064494 - 02/24/08 01:08 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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It was synthesized. The dea did not supply anything.
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: kong]
#8064643 - 02/24/08 01:52 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Wasn't Halpern arrested in that whole missile silo LSD thing?
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: tsquad]
#8065124 - 02/24/08 04:36 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: Grylls]
#8065380 - 02/24/08 05:45 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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anxiety that is treatment-resistant in patients with cancer... shit. I sure hope it works for those people
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: nk pakelika]
#8065613 - 02/24/08 06:34 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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nk pakelika said: i wanna know where they get the MDMA from, if its synthesized, or if the dea gave them pure tablet's or powder that they seized in a bust.
you buy it like anything else.
sigma-aldrich sells it
10mg- 79$; 50mg- 279
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: johnm214]
#8067534 - 02/25/08 03:13 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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how do you know the price? that better be some damn good MDMA. id love to get my hands on some pharmi-grade mdma
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: ke1n]
#8067706 - 02/25/08 06:08 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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This may indeed be very good news for therapists who have patients that have not responded well to other treatments. Quite often the unintended consequences of such news is a false sense of reassurance that the news provides, quite frequently second hand, to the casual and recreational users of similar bioactive and potentially neurotoxic drugs such as psilocybin, amphetamines, cocaine, etc. These drugs have sometimes proven lethal when combined with alcohol and other drugs. Some folks have a tendency to overlook important caveats such as …can be beneficial to some patients in carefully controlled clinical settings.
You may also be interested in Rick Strassman's work at the University of New Mexico: http://www.smart-publications.com/articles/MOM-strassman.php
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: ke1n]
#8068760 - 02/25/08 02:38 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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ke1n said: how do you know the price? that better be some damn good MDMA. id love to get my hands on some pharmi-grade mdma
you can find it on their website, they list all their chemicals in stock online... and they have a large selection
Meth is far cheaper...
100 mg for 28.60
or 25 grams for the low low price of 370, don't miss this bargain!
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: johnm214]
#8068789 - 02/25/08 02:46 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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You need a DEA permit to buy chemical references that are controlled substances. Obviously, the folks at Harvard Medical School where this study was done have DEA permission.
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: Diploid]
#8069216 - 02/25/08 04:58 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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This is interesting. There are currently three studies going on with hallucinognes and cancer. I wonder how the results will differ.
Two involve psilocybin, this one MDMA.
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: badchad]
#8069237 - 02/25/08 05:02 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Actually in Switzerland there is now one involving LSD.
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Re: MAPS / Harvard Conduct First MDMA (Ecstacy) Study With Humans! [Re: Divided_Sky]
#8069520 - 02/25/08 06:19 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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^Yep. 
LSD-assisted Psychotherapy Research in Switzerland
MAPS and Dr. Peter Gasser have signed a Memorandum of Understanding about our working together on the design of a study to investigate LSD-assisted psychotherapy in 12 subjects suffering from anxiety associated with advanced-stage cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. The study will cost an estimated $150,000, with MAPS promising to donate at least $50,000 and to try to raise the additional $100,000. This study will complement Dr. John Halpern's MAPS-initiated research investigating MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and Dr. Charles Grob's Heffter-sponsored research investigating psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy, both with subjects suffering from anxiety associated with advanced-stage cancer.
Dr. Gasser's study received final approval from the study's Ethics Committee (the Swiss IRB equivalent) on July 12, 2007. The protocol is for a preliminary 12 patient, double-blind design to gather basic information on safety and efficacy for this patient population and to develop a treatment approach. Though there has been substantial prior research with LSD in cancer patients that demonstrated safety and some degree of efficacy, that research was conducted over 35 years ago. For this study to follow modern drug development standards, we must start from scratch and build carefully.
Obtaining Ethics Committee approval is the first of three formal regulatory reviews for the protocol to gain full government approval. On July 13, Dr. Gasser submitted the protocol to SwissMedic, the Swiss equivalent of FDA. Thankfully, like FDA, SwissMedic must respond to the application within 30 days. After SwissMedic approves the study, Dr. Gasser will submit an application to the BAG (Swiss DEA) for a license to possess and administer the LSD to be used in the study. We were previously informed by a staff member at the BAG that its review process should take about a week, so we are still planning to begin the study by the Fall of 2007. When fully approved, this will become the first government-approved study investigating LSD's therapeutic benefits in human subjects in over 35 years.
http://www.maps.org/research/cluster/psilo-lsd/#swlsd
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