FDA Reviewers Reject MDMA Treatment for PTSD

This week, the FDA advisory panel rejected MDMA therapy for PTSD due to concerns over research. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed explains what research shows about MDMA as a cure for PTSD symptoms. He then talks about why the panel rejected the research mainly over how reliable the collected evidence is. When it comes to using evidence for science-backed decisions, proof is everything.

00:00 - FDA advisors rejected MDMA as therapy for PTSD
01:04 - What research says about MDMA as a cure for PTSD
01:50 - Message from our sponsors @MargueriteCaseyFoundation
02:35 - Issues with the study
03:42 - Randomization challenges

[chrisweatherly]

I have been super impressed with the results of some of these studies, particularly with psilocybin and mdma therapy. I really think the data is there on them being effective, and mostly safe. That being said more research could very well convince more people that this is safe and effective.

[jordisaura]

Mdma as treatment for ptsd... ptsd is hard but mdma can destroy any human being I have seen

[kodowdus]

It's really time to start making a distinction between "evidence-based" medicine and public health. Broad spectrum antibiotics can be safe and even useful at the level of treating an individual patient, but their wide-spread use could easily turn into a public health disaster for reasons that are well known to public health professionals.

[FishBoneD]

The issue wasn’t really the mdma but the study protocol

[janicewuitschick]

We’ll if they’re productive and happy citizens, then maybe being on Ecstasy is better than what we have now.

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