FDA OKs Ecstasy!!!

[djerickd]

FDA OKs Ecstasy Study in Cancer Patients
Monday, December 27, 2004

The illegal club drug Ecstasy (search) can trigger euphoria among the dance club set, but can it ease the debilitating anxiety that cancer patients feel as they face their final days?

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pilot study looking at whether the recreational hallucinogen can help terminally ill patients lessen their fears, quell thoughts of suicide and make it easier for them to deal with loved ones.

"End of life issues are very important and are getting more and more attention, and yet there are very few options for patients who are facing death," Dr. John Halpern, the Harvard research psychiatrist in charge of the study, said Monday.

The small, four-month study is expected to begin early next spring. It will test the drug's effects on 12 cancer patients from the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in the Boston area. The research is being sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (search), a nonprofit group that plans to raise $250,000 to fund it.

MAPS, on its web site, touted the study's approval, saying "the longest day of winter has passed, and maybe so has the decades-long era of resistance to psychedelic research."


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142683,00.html

[chicks dig me]

wow. i don't know what to think...

[zxcvnm]

awesome...

[redneckbandit2]

Originally Posted by djerickd

FDA OKs Ecstasy Study in Cancer Patients
Monday, December 27, 2004

The illegal club drug Ecstasy (search) can trigger euphoria among the dance club set, but can it ease the debilitating anxiety that cancer patients feel as they face their final days?

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pilot study looking at whether the recreational hallucinogen can help terminally ill patients lessen their fears, quell thoughts of suicide and make it easier for them to deal with loved ones.

"End of life issues are very important and are getting more and more attention, and yet there are very few options for patients who are facing death," Dr. John Halpern, the Harvard research psychiatrist in charge of the study, said Monday.

The small, four-month study is expected to begin early next spring. It will test the drug's effects on 12 cancer patients from the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in the Boston area. The research is being sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (search), a nonprofit group that plans to raise $250,000 to fund it.

MAPS, on its web site, touted the study's approval, saying "the longest day of winter has passed, and maybe so has the decades-long era of resistance to psychedelic research."


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142683,00.html

dude,maybe i read this wrong but ur trying to make it sound like its legal.all they're gonna do is test it on some cancer patients

[Tech_Zilla]

if I knew I was gunna die, I would do something alot cooler than take ecstasy.....because then, next thing you know, you'll be listening to some game ass techno music and waving glow sticks while chewing on a toothbrush

[tank03]

Originally Posted by djerickd

FDA OKs Ecstasy Study in Cancer Patients
Monday, December 27, 2004

The illegal club drug Ecstasy (search) can trigger euphoria among the dance club set, but can it ease the debilitating anxiety that cancer patients feel as they face their final days?

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pilot study looking at whether the recreational hallucinogen can help terminally ill patients lessen their fears, quell thoughts of suicide and make it easier for them to deal with loved ones.

"End of life issues are very important and are getting more and more attention, and yet there are very few options for patients who are facing death," Dr. John Halpern, the Harvard research psychiatrist in charge of the study, said Monday.

The small, four-month study is expected to begin early next spring. It will test the drug's effects on 12 cancer patients from the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in the Boston area. The research is being sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (search), a nonprofit group that plans to raise $250,000 to fund it.

MAPS, on its web site, touted the study's approval, saying "the longest day of winter has passed, and maybe so has the decades-long era of resistance to psychedelic research."


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142683,00.html

and they banned ephedra

[themainman]

This is a small world. My wife was chosen to do some research up in Harvard this April but she doesn't know what she will be researching yet. Harvard is paying her $4,000 plus putting us up in a townhouse on campusfor 3 months. If you don't believe me then do a search with my name "themainman" and "Harvard" and you will see I made a thread about this a month ago. I wonder if she will be one of those that is doing the research on Ecstasy.

[bts327]

This is actually old news.

People have been doing FDA approved MDMA trials since around 2001.

It may very well be available for presciption under certain circumstances in the near future.


Just because a substance is widely abused and overdosed by almost everyone one who uses it, proves not that the substance is inherently harmful, what it proves is that ignorance is inherently harmful.

MDMA was scheduled at the very beginnings of it's resurrected clinical research because it slipped into the underground and people started abusing it and taking doses far exceeding the effective dose. Early research was cut short because not too many doctors and scientists were willing to risk their reputations working with illegitimate compounds. The ones who did are few and far in between and the literature is sparse. There is just so much we do not know about this drug.

I really don't see the big deal. In fact, I say it's about damn time they brought back a drug that may very well be usefull in the treatment of a wide range of conditions.

[bts327]

Originally Posted by themainman

This is a small world. My wife was chosen to do some research up in Harvard this April but she doesn't know what she will be researching yet. Harvard is paying her $4,000 plus putting us up in a townhouse on campusfor 3 months. If you don't believe me then do a search with my name "themainman" and "Harvard" and you will see I made a thread about this a month ago. I wonder if she will be one of those that is doing the research on Ecstasy.

Does she suffer from post traumatic stress disorder?

[bts327]

Originally Posted by Tech_Zilla

if I knew I was gunna die, I would do something alot cooler than take ecstasy.....because then, next thing you know, you'll be listening to some game ass techno music and waving glow sticks while chewing on a toothbrush

Nah mang, that's only the peeps who have blown their brains out by rolling for weeks at a time.

The way to do e is in small doses once or twice a year, if that.

[Cat Basher]

Originally Posted by bts327

This is actually old news.

People have been doing FDA approved MDMA trials since around 2001.

It may very well be available for presciption under certain circumstances in the near future.

So now we'll have young scamps breaking into the homes of cancer patients and stealing their ecstacy? What about dudes on those medicine bags on wheels rocking up to a club looking to score, because the pharmacist ran out?

[Diesel66]

MDMA was legal during the 80s, it was used by psychatrist.

[Maximize]

Ecstacy is no good, what they are testing is MDMA which is known as molly I have done this drug several years ago and had a great time.

I do not condone recreational drug use

[AzBadass]

I can't wait for cancer.

[Diab0lic]

Originally Posted by Diesel66

MDMA was legal during the 80s, it was used by psychatrist.

They used it in marriage counselling. Apparently, one good 3 hour mdma session could produce better results than 3 months of counselling.....

[AzBadass]

Originally Posted by Diab0lic

They used it in marriage counselling. Apparently, one good 3 hour mdma session could produce better results than 3 months of counselling.....

And a whole lot of babies...

[NorBerg]

Originally Posted by Maximize

Ecstacy is no good, what they are testing is MDMA which is known as molly I have done this drug several years ago and had a great time.

I do not condone recreational drug use

Aaaaa the good old days, wouldnt tuch the stuff now though...

[kwyckemynd00]

It, like many other drugs, was developed for medicinal purposes in the first place. The only reason most illegal drugs, except steroids, are illegal in the first place is because of their addictive nature...

If X is not addictive (or not "too" addictive), it will probably be legal for prescription patients...

[The_Cleric]

Originally Posted by Diesel66

MDMA was legal during the 80s, it was used by psychatrist.

It was used further back then the 80's

E is not a new drug it has been around the medical world for a long time

It only recently became popular as a rec drug

[canadianpower]

Originally Posted by djerickd

FDA OKs Ecstasy Study in Cancer Patients
Monday, December 27, 2004

The illegal club drug Ecstasy (search) can trigger euphoria among the dance club set, but can it ease the debilitating anxiety that cancer patients feel as they face their final days?

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pilot study looking at whether the recreational hallucinogen can help terminally ill patients lessen their fears, quell thoughts of suicide and make it easier for them to deal with loved ones.

"End of life issues are very important and are getting more and more attention, and yet there are very few options for patients who are facing death," Dr. John Halpern, the Harvard research psychiatrist in charge of the study, said Monday.

The small, four-month study is expected to begin early next spring. It will test the drug's effects on 12 cancer patients from the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in the Boston area. The research is being sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (search), a nonprofit group that plans to raise $250,000 to fund it.

MAPS, on its web site, touted the study's approval, saying "the longest day of winter has passed, and maybe so has the decades-long era of resistance to psychedelic research."


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142683,00.html

What's next, crack?!? WTF

[paan lokar]

Originally Posted by djerickd

FDA OKs Ecstasy Study in Cancer Patients
Monday, December 27, 2004

The illegal club drug Ecstasy (search) can trigger euphoria among the dance club set, but can it ease the debilitating anxiety that cancer patients feel as they face their final days?

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pilot study looking at whether the recreational hallucinogen can help terminally ill patients lessen their fears, quell thoughts of suicide and make it easier for them to deal with loved ones.

"End of life issues are very important and are getting more and more attention, and yet there are very few options for patients who are facing death," Dr. John Halpern, the Harvard research psychiatrist in charge of the study, said Monday.

The small, four-month study is expected to begin early next spring. It will test the drug's effects on 12 cancer patients from the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in the Boston area. The research is being sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (search), a nonprofit group that plans to raise $250,000 to fund it.

MAPS, on its web site, touted the study's approval, saying "the longest day of winter has passed, and maybe so has the decades-long era of resistance to psychedelic research."


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142683,00.html

cool!

[regulus]

Originally Posted by djerickd

FDA OKs Ecstasy Study in Cancer Patients
Monday, December 27, 2004

The illegal club drug Ecstasy (search) can trigger euphoria among the dance club set, but can it ease the debilitating anxiety that cancer patients feel as they face their final days?

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pilot study looking at whether the recreational hallucinogen can help terminally ill patients lessen their fears, quell thoughts of suicide and make it easier for them to deal with loved ones.

"End of life issues are very important and are getting more and more attention, and yet there are very few options for patients who are facing death," Dr. John Halpern, the Harvard research psychiatrist in charge of the study, said Monday.

The small, four-month study is expected to begin early next spring. It will test the drug's effects on 12 cancer patients from the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in the Boston area. The research is being sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (search), a nonprofit group that plans to raise $250,000 to fund it.

MAPS, on its web site, touted the study's approval, saying "the longest day of winter has passed, and maybe so has the decades-long era of resistance to psychedelic research."


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142683,00.html

wild

[The Spy]

Originally Posted by zxcvnm

awesome...

bump!

[The Enforcer]

Originally Posted by djerickd

FDA OKs Ecstasy Study in Cancer Patients
Monday, December 27, 2004

The illegal club drug Ecstasy (search) can trigger euphoria among the dance club set, but can it ease the debilitating anxiety that cancer patients feel as they face their final days?

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pilot study looking at whether the recreational hallucinogen can help terminally ill patients lessen their fears, quell thoughts of suicide and make it easier for them to deal with loved ones.

"End of life issues are very important and are getting more and more attention, and yet there are very few options for patients who are facing death," Dr. John Halpern, the Harvard research psychiatrist in charge of the study, said Monday.

The small, four-month study is expected to begin early next spring. It will test the drug's effects on 12 cancer patients from the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in the Boston area. The research is being sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (search), a nonprofit group that plans to raise $250,000 to fund it.

MAPS, on its web site, touted the study's approval, saying "the longest day of winter has passed, and maybe so has the decades-long era of resistance to psychedelic research."


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,142683,00.html

nice

[ryanG]

this is something the public needs...drug companies making this drug...not a bunch of junkies throwing some ingredients together in their basement and selling them on the street

[bts327]

Originally Posted by Cat Basher

So now we'll have young scamps breaking into the homes of cancer patients and stealing their ecstacy? What about dudes on those medicine bags on wheels rocking up to a club looking to score, because the pharmacist ran out?

From what I have read it will likely be used in a controlled environment.

You would be prescribed the drug and then it would have to be administered to you during a session, under the direction of a doctor.

Right now they are looking, or will be looking, at it to treat people who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder.

Back in the day they used it for a variety of different situations, including marriage counseling I believe.


The thing about it is, we shouldn't need any drugs to take care of our problems, well, maybe one or two percent of the population does. The fact is simple, we are a culture built partially around the phenomenon of drug use, abuse, and addiction. I don't know of anyone who doesn't use some form of drug or another; most of which could be done away with if they established a proper diet and exercise routine.

If something is wrong with someone, they are likely to seek out a pill, or similar drug to cure them. Not saying this is right or wrong, although I do think there are sometimes better ways to help someone outside of severe physical disease, this is just the way it is. There is an interesting contradiction going on right now in our society; we demonize drug use, yet we glorify it at the same time. I guess contradiction is the only means to perpetuate ends; good for some, bad for the rest.


I think it's agood thing that some of these "lesser known" compounds are finally getting their chance to shine.

[djerickd]

Originally Posted by redneckbandit2

dude,maybe i read this wrong but ur trying to make it sound like its legal.all they're gonna do is test it on some cancer patients

ROTFLMAO!!

[Maximize]

i can def. see it being used in couple cousiling... because MDMA can make you love everything

[EphedraFree]

Bumping from the past.


Is this true?? MDMA is legal?!?!