Prognosis
Illegal Ecstasy Takes Step Toward Becoming Legal Drug for PTSD
Almost forty years after it was banned, it’s taking a big step toward becoming a licensed treatment for post traumatic stress disorder.
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The first new PTSD drug in over twenty years is up for approval. It will require US regulators to do something they've never done before: greenlight the mind-altering — and illegal — party drug known as ecstasy.
The new drug is a version of MDMA, also known as ecstasy, made by Lykos Therapeutics Inc., an unusual drugmaker started by a nonprofit that has for decades advocated to bring psychedelic therapy to the masses.