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Washington, United States—A panel of US health experts convened by the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted against the use of MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
But pharmaceutical treatment options are so far limited to two antidepressants that require three months of dosing to take effect, and response rates to the medications have been found to be uneven. These two studies, published in the prestigious journal Nature Medicine, indicated MDMA was indeed both safe and highly effective at treating PTSD.
“I think this is a really exciting treatment. I’m really encouraged by the results to date,” said one of the experts, Paul Holtzheimer of the National Center for PTSD.The vote by the panel of experts is non-binding, but the FDA rarely goes against their recommendations.
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