It’s crazy how 'experts' can speak about things they clearly have no idea about. How can someone say that people might go home and take cocaine after treatment? That statement shows a complete lack of understanding. Psychedelics are among the least toxic and least likely drugs to cause dependency, far less so than alcohol and tobacco...
There's clearly an interest here that is swaying the votes. It's clear as day. In this country you have to assume everyone in power is corrupt until they show they aren't. Thank you for advocating for this, it's super important that we use what we have available to treat people who need it.
What I never hear mentioned is that Ecstasy is NOT MDMA. The street drug Ecstasy is in an overwhelming majority of cases some MDMA mixed with speed and variations on this. I did MDMA once, it was a wonderful social-bonding experience whose healing repercussions were felt for weeks after. I did Ecstasy once, I wasn't expecting the speed. I hated it. MDMA's first career was psychotherapy, not laced street-drug. The MDMA I did was provided by a psychotherapist in Texas and came with a leaflet of instructions for dosage, boost dosage, hydration and other advice. It was 1987 or 1988. I could have been healed of my PTSD thirty years ago along with thousands and thousands of people over these decades and still now.😪
Agreed. I have tried both and while MDMA on the street isn't what it used to be, it's def different than ecstasy. MDMA is a very emotional experience. The desire to want to listen to someone and understand and feel how they feel, real empathy. Even with complete strangers. I was excited when I heard it was going to clinical trials, for veteran PTSD, being a veteran myself. I hope we can move past this and continue on with this drug to help people.
No, science is not self-evident, especially the closer you get to the cutting edge. It's not self-evident that gravity is the force of space-time distortion by mass... and that's a "hard" science, physics. A "softer" science like psychology and psychiatry, at the cutting edge, things are not clear at all. Why does giving amphetamines, stimulants, calm down people with hyperactivity? That is not self-evident. That being said, all drug law in the U.S. is unconstitutional, violating the 1st, 4th, 5th, 8th and 10th Amendments ... so while I'm okay with the FDA regulating MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, I also think if you're an adult with a competent mind, able to weigh risk v. reward, it's nobody else's business how you choose to exercise your freedom of thought, which inherently includes, the use of chemical tools, to modify your thoughts -- but if a doctor wants to do it, then we definitely need regulation for them... because they'll be dictating what someone who is not themselves, does to modify their mind and/or body -- there's no Constitutional right to modifying other people's biochemistry,...
This is not what happened. There is absolutely no doubt the promise of PAT is 100% there, thats not even in question, this is all about the company!. Lykos / aka MAPS is massive grift. If MAPS is the company that spearheads this new treatment, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy will probably be even less accessible for the public than it is today. Even if it went through, would you be happy that only one company has control over this treatment, and at a cost of $12-15k a treatment which no health insurance would ever cover? Actually looks like this page is a Rick Doblin fan club.
May I ask how you know this? I mean is it stated somewhere that if they get the aproval... is only for them the right to make use of it? I am legitimately interested
@@EscuelapsicodelicaLykos would have the exclusive right to commercialize it for a few years based on something called data exclusivity. The treatment is costly largely because it requires 2 therapists for multiple long sessions, but it is much cheaper than long term ongoing treatments that are less effective, yet alone suicides. Also, it could be covered by insurance. MAPS is a non profit and Rick doesn’t have any financial share in the company. This comment is not informed and has no idea the costs and efforts involved in bringing a drug to market and making something like this available to people in need.
