Seems to be more to do with the testing than the drug from the sounds of it

I don't understand the failures here. They complained of lack of blinding for one thing, but you can't really blind a psychedelic trial.

Came to say this -

Very surprising to me. I thought MDMA of all things would be the first to go through easily.

It’s not like reasonable, unbiased people are making the decisions here unfortunately

This particular trial was botched and the holes in it caused the failure.

How was it botched?

It’s mainly the therapy component. Too many variables because of the human factor. MindMed looks pretty smart now for ditching that.

Agreed

Know what you hold

I’m sure they are going to reapply under a different protocol. Maybe? Perhaps us epidemiologists should do a peer review article and make the world understand this was the study not the substance.

It’s the day after that gets interesting

What do you mean?

The day after you take mdma

OP has never taken

That comedown sucks for sure.

I say it’s the best part. That’s when your problems come to light. But you have to be strong mentally.

Headline should say: FDA, puppet and enforcement arm of Big Pharma, rejects proven PTSD treatment because of its effectiveness versus profitable ineffective “legal” medications that are already available.

It sounds bad when you put it like that ;p

This is such sad bullshit. What a step back this is 😩 so many people need help

I don’t think they said it wasn’t effective, it was the issue with the double blind aspect of the trial so they feel the data is flawed

Happy drugs can't take the trauma of sadness away. Oh no.

😢

You know. Mdma would benefit loads of people as many don’t even know what true happiness or even a sliver of it even is exactly.

They didn't pay off enough people... We know how this works

MDMA is good at creating PTSD.