The world's first clinical trial using a party drug "MDMA" for alcoholism treatment started

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The drug "MDMA" that 30% of students at Stanford University has the experience of tried it is regulated by law as an illegal drug in most countries.Imperial College LondonThe world 's first clinical trial to administer such MDMA as a psychotherapeutic treatment for alcohol addiction patients is about to be done.

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Although MDMA is prohibited by law because it has an adverse effect on the human body, research that aims to utilize the main effect of MDMA for treatment of PTSD is done by adjusting usage and dose. Imperial College London is studying whether several drugs will be used in combination with psychotherapy such as psychotherapy to be superior to conventional therapy to overcome addiction symptoms . As part of that research, the research team will be approved by ethical review to use MDMA for small scale trials and will undertake a clinical trial of alcohol dependence treatment, which will administer the world's first MDMA within 2 months.

Ben Sessa, a psychiatrist leading the clinical trial at Imperial College London said, "Many of the alcoholics patients I undertake are in the mind of some trauma I gained in the past, trauma creates poisoning MDMA works well for those with trauma and helps with sympathy. "

Twenty people with alcohol addiction who have applied for the program participate in this clinical trial. Both patients suffer from a severe alcohol addiction that consumes alcohol equivalent to five bottles of wine per day, and other trials of other treatments have repeatedly recurring alcoholism about. In the clinical trial, after a detoxification to withdraw alcohol etc. in the body, the usual therapy session is done twice without medicine. Next, a therapy session to administer a capsule type high capacity MDMA is done all day, patients in the session are planning to talk with therapist, spend meditating quietly with eye mask.

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According to Mr. Sessa, MDMA is used to strengthen the relationship between patients and therapists, so the possibility of causing long-term mental illness is unlimitedly controlled to be low. "As it is today, modern psychiatric therapy remains truly poor even after 100 years.Therefore, there is no case where MDMA was used to treat alcoholism, but the rate of recurrence after 3 years of alcohol addiction Is very high, 90%, "Mr. Sessa is appealing the necessity of MDMA at the conference.

In recent years, there has been growing interest in using illegal hallucinogens for medical science, and in 2016"Psicocybin" as an active ingredient of Magic Mushrooms is effective for severe depressionImperial College London has proved in clinical trials. It is said that MDMA is approved to carry out Phase 3 clinical trials because it is very effective for veterans' PTSD treatment in the United States.

However, some doctors are skeptical of treatment using MDMA, and doctor Ed Dae of King's College London is one of them. While acknowledging that MDMA is effective for treatment of PTSD and depression, Mr. Dei shows opposition to using it for treatment of alcoholism, "Mr. Dei said," The most advanced drug and alcohol dependence prevention We should resume funding for the program. "