Ecstasy Therapy: How MDMA became medicine

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Military veterans are unlikely collaborators with the psychedelic counterculture. The two groups’ efforts are being tested this month, when the FDA is poised to announce whether or not it’ll approve MDMA for PTSD. This episode was reported and produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Lissa Soep and Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Rob Byers, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. It’s the second in a series supported with a grant from the Ferriss–UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On yesterday's show today's show today explained reporter Halima Shah wanted to talk about ecstasy
0:07.0	That's right because the FDA is currently considering making ecstasy or MDMA something that you can use in
0:15.1	psychotherapy for PTSD a very old idea that was floated as early as the 80s.
0:20.9	But then the DA got involved and they were like no. Yeah and now in
0:24.8	2024 it seems like there's a sea change happening because conservatives in
0:29.6	Congress as well as Fox News hosts are throwing their support behind MDMA
0:34.9	assisted therapy. I will scream it from the mountaintops people should have
0:39.8	access to this treatment and a lot of it is because of the testimony of veterans
0:44.8	who say that this helped heal their PTSD. And you spoke to some veterans? I did and
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