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If MDMA would result in shut-ins then it wouldn't be such a big business, no? (Though we have to control for how many new users entering the market, how many s
by pas 6y ago
If MDMA would result in shut-ins then it wouldn't be such a big business, no?
(Though we have to control for how many new users entering the market, how many shut-ins it has already produced, etc. But looking at very rough data about MDMA use and depression prevalence per country, there's doesn't seem to be any correlation. For example Netherlands is at a constant 4% since 1990, but use went up from ~2.3% to 8.4% from 1997 to 2018. https://www.statista.com/statistics/632401/ecstasy-usage-in-the-netherlands/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/632401/ecstasy-usage-in-... and https://ourworldindata.org/mental-health#depression https://ourworldindata.org/mental-health#depression )