MDMA plus exposure therapy for PTSD

MAPS trials of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD didn't use a 'state of the art' psychotherapy approach linked with the MDMA. MAPS have just given a grant of $200K to see if MDMA can enhance the effectiveness of Massed Exposure Therapy (MET). MET delivers 10 x 90min exposure therapy sessions over 10 days and has been shown to be pretty much as effective to the one 90min session per week for 10 weeks of standard Prolonged Exposure Therapy. As MAPS comment "This study is one of the first trials exploring whether psychedelic-assisted therapy can enhance an existing evidence-based PTSD therapeutic treatment." Here are more details of the study and I, for one, await the results with considerable interest. I think it will probably work well.

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