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BBC News By Rachel Schraer image copyrightGetty Images MDMA - most commonly known as a party drug - could be more effective than therapy alone at treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The results of a keenly-awaited trial suggest two-thirds of people no longer qualified for a PTSD diagnosis after treatment. The study represents a significant step towards approval of the drug in the US. But UK experts warn against overhyping MDMA's potential, saying more research is needed to understand its effects. PTSD can be the result of a very distressing or frightening event, or longer-ter...

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 8) 150 Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America will publish a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Mental Health Survival Kit and Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs . In this blog, he discusses psychiatry’s resistance to admitting to withdrawal effects, as well as the way doctors and scientists are treated when they critique the establishment. Each Monday, a new section of the book will be published, and all chapters will be archived False information on withdrawal from UK psychiatri...

A study of 59 people compared the drug with a conventional antidepressant.

'I was 18 months older but my cheeky little sister was the leader,' says Esther, who is now 31. 'She was confident and fiercely intelligent, with a smile that lit up a room'. Esther is pictured left while Rebecca is pictured right As children, Esther and Rebecca Marshall were often mistaken for twins.  'I was 18 months older but my cheeky little sister was the leader,' says Esther, who is now 31.  'She was confident and fiercely intelligent, with a smile that lit up a room.' Their parents, both busy London GPs, also worked in hospital outpatient clinics, so the two girls and their sister Sa...