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Nature is the mecca of all science. MDMA will be approved by FDA, that's inevitable. Likely would require special licensing. Clinics will pop up all over the co

Nature is the mecca of all science. MDMA will be approved by FDA, that's inevitable. Likely would require special licensing. Clinics will pop up all over the country and it won't be long before “off label” prescriptions will appear. The incidence of PTSD will suddenly rise and before we have a chance to quell the opioid epidemic another epidemic will replace it on the front pages of the news. Meanwhile the smart ones will invest in whichever pharmaceutical company will be the first to patent an SSRI/MDMA combination drug. “The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” Hegel

sowbug 3y ago
MDMA isn't physically addictive. Could be psychologically addictive the way the lottery or Netflix is, but I doubt it's going to be giving oxycodone much competition.
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derefr 3y ago
• MDMA is almost anti-addictive — the more often you take it, the less fun it is. MDMA acts on the brain almost as if it by "using up" some scarce resource inside the brain, that only gradually builds back up when not taking MDMA. If you try to take MDMA again the very next day after taking it, you just get a headache. There's a reason you don't hear about "MDMA junkies" the way you hear about heroin junkies. • SSRIs and MDMA are counteractive; being on SSRIs suppresses the effect of MDMA. (And also, due to this, you can end up with serotonin syndrome on the come-down from MDMA.)
tysam_and 3y ago
If you're talking about pairing an SSRI with MDMA, then perhaps you would perhaps be well-served by adding some reticence to the confident assertions made. That pairing would be like a Clorox + Bleach pairing of the psychotropic world. There is significant interest in the drug, and the culture largely is focused on appropriate administration measures. This is not a half-baked solution, MAPS has worked on this for decades.
- hollerith 3y ago
  >That pairing would be like a Clorox + Bleach pairing of the psychotropic world. Clorox is bleach. I think you mean ammonia + bleach.
  - tysam_and 3y ago
    Apologies, thank you.

sowbug 3y ago

MDMA isn't physically addictive. Could be psychologically addictive the way the lottery or Netflix is, but I doubt it's going to be giving oxycodone much competition.

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derefr 3y ago

• MDMA is almost anti-addictive — the more often you take it, the less fun it is. MDMA acts on the brain almost as if it by "using up" some scarce resource inside the brain, that only gradually builds back up when not taking MDMA. If you try to take MDMA again the very next day after taking it, you just get a headache. There's a reason you don't hear about "MDMA junkies" the way you hear about heroin junkies. • SSRIs and MDMA are counteractive; being on SSRIs suppresses the effect of MDMA. (And also, due to this, you can end up with serotonin syndrome on the come-down from MDMA.)

tysam_and 3y ago

If you're talking about pairing an SSRI with MDMA, then perhaps you would perhaps be well-served by adding some reticence to the confident assertions made. That pairing would be like a Clorox + Bleach pairing of the psychotropic world. There is significant interest in the drug, and the culture largely is focused on appropriate administration measures. This is not a half-baked solution, MAPS has worked on this for decades.

hollerith 3y ago
>That pairing would be like a Clorox + Bleach pairing of the psychotropic world. Clorox is bleach. I think you mean ammonia + bleach.
- tysam_and 3y ago
  Apologies, thank you.