The US has denied a bid to allow MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy or molly, to be used in the treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was examining the psychedelic drug made by Lykos Therapeutics to treat the mental health disorder in combination with talk therapy.

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Okay I’ll just go back to killing myself with alcohol so I can sleep

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I’m a few weeks into sobriety and I gotta say, stopping drinking is an amazing feeling. I only had trouble sleeping one or two nights.

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It’s best to kill your self with governmental approved drugs.

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But police can inject you with ketamine if think think you are too much lol

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Personally, I want FDA approval to mean it is as provably safe and effective as possible. They said they wanted more evidence before approval, and I think that’s okay. Good, even.

The way the US treats recreational drug use and self-medication is horrific, but it’s not really the domain of the FDA.

I would rather have not-yet-FDA-approved legal-for-personal-use mdma than what we have now or an unproven drug approved by the FDA.

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IIRC, advocates in this space were expecting this outcome. The research around MDMA-based treatment is promising but not quite there yet.

Psilocybin-based treatment, on the other hand, is looking more solid.

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Ketamine as well.

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Shouldn’t it need to be shown to be unsafe to remove people’s choice to use it though? Proving it safe would be great, but the claim to prevent usage should be that it’s harmful. It’s removing a choice. We shouldn’t have to prove everything is safe to be allowed to do it. We do plenty of things that are unsafe, but these drugs aren’t allowed for no good reason.

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Allowing anyone to just sell whatever chemical they come up with without first showing that it’s safe would be insanely irresponsible.

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???

K, well, you also have the choice to eat literally any mushroom you find growing in the ground, doesn’t mean it’d be legal to sell them as shishkabs on the street. Wtf are you on about mate

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It’s illegal to use these drugs, no matter how you get them. Should that be the case just because some old people don’t like people using them, not because they’re particularly harmful? Alcohol causes a ton of harm, but it’s legal to use. Why is it different?

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Why would the FDA care about that? They’re not the ones making money off it.

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Wish I knew what was said here. And why this dude was automatically banned site wide by a bot.

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Exactly. Why have a cheap, one off drug when you can make billions with something expensive that’ll be needed for the duration of your life, and might possibly give you side effects that’ll require additional drugs that they also happen to sell? To not do so would be socialism!

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When they deny something like this because of claimed flaws in study, do they give detailed descriptions of the flaws and help (maybe for a fee) the petitioner make a new study?

Or do they leave it vague enough so they can just perpetually say it’s flawed?

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