FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation for MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD

[Richard D]

FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation for MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD


The non-profit Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to MDMA for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). MAPS and the FDA have also reached agreement under the Special Protocol Assessment Process (SPA) for the design of two upcoming Phase 3 trials (MAPP1 and MAPP2) of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for patients with severe PTSD.

MDMA-assisted psychotherapy is a novel treatment package that combines psychotherapeutic techniques with three administrations of MDMA as a pharmacological adjunct.

By granting Breakthrough Therapy Designation, the FDA has agreed that this treatment may have a meaningful advantage and greater compliance over available medications for PTSD.

http://www.maps.org/news/media/6786-press-release-fda-grants-breakthrough-therapy-designation-for-mdma-assisted-psychotherapy-for-ptsd,-agrees-on-special-protocol-assessment-for-phase-3-trials?pk_campaign=BTD2017&pk_kwd=pr-end

[MagickMuffin]

1. MAPS has been on the forefront of this for decades

I'm glad that they're finally getting some approval instead of resistance!

Thanks for the OP, Richard D

[Duppers]

2. K & R

[CanSocDem]

3. Great news!

That the "medical industry" is willing to try something that the public has known about for years.

K&R

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[Achilleaze]

4. Save up a two-scoop dose for the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

and his Cabal of Colluding republican Cronies. The republican Perjurer General may need a triple.

Can this stuff be administered via suppositories? Seems appropriate in the case of the corrupt, criminial, and deceitful KGOP TreasonWeasels.