WASHINGTON – Growing up amid the tumult of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War, Rick Doblin says he became convinced that humanity was “crazy” and “inherently destructive.” As a teenager, he ...

The U.S. may approve therapies using MDMA and psilocybin—aka ecstasy and magic mushrooms. The medical community is preparing for the deluge of demand. Jenna Lombardo-Grosso, a former Marine, is ...

For Rick Doblin, 2023 could be a landmark year: the year that the US government decides whether it will allow the use of hallucinogenic drugs to treat mental illness. Doblin, who is based in Belmont, ...

The use of MDMA as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been rejected by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committee following recent trials. The decision was made at an ...

The University of Colorado is the latest mainstream university to create a dedicated center for the study of psychedelic drugs, and its leaders are already dreaming up new experiments. The CU Denver ...

It was 1985 and John Lawn had seen enough. In Boston nightclubs and Dallas bars, MDMA—better known by its street name, ecstasy—had become an enormously popular recreational drug. It had also terrified ...

Heavy use of MDMA (ecstasy) may lead to long-term changes in your brain’s serotonin system — but there’s a lot we still don’t know. MDMA, also known as ecstasy or Molly, is a synthetic psychoactive ...

Also known as molly or ecstasy, MDMA has the potential to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But psychedelic-assisted therapy can only be administered by a trained professional. Without the ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder is one of the most common mental health conditions in the world, with an estimated six out of every 100 people in the United States alone experiencing PTSD at some point ...