MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Analysis

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The article MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Using Low Doses in a Small Sample of Women with Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder details an experiment that explores the use and safety of the hallucinogenic drug MDMA as a treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. The study focuses specifically on women who have been diagnosed with PTSD as a result of sexual assault. Although the researchers originally planned to do the experiment with a sample of 29 women, due to political reasons only 6 subjects were treated before the experiment was ultimately shut down and are included in the results. All subjects were given three 90 minute psychotherapy sessions before the actual dug experiment took place in order to prepare them for what they might experience.

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