When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declined to approve MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) last year, the details of its objections were not ...

My life was forever changed on August 6, 2011, when insurgents shot down a Chinook transport helicopter in Afghanistan, killing all 31 people on board. My husband served in the Navy for 20 years, ...

Untreated mental health concerns remain devastating for our nation, and there is an ongoing need for expanded options and access. In the past few years, there has been a resurgence in interest in ...

Last month, the first psychedelic therapy treatment came before the Food and Drug Administration for a vote. It entailed using MDMA, also known as ecstasy or molly, to treat PTSD. MDMA therapy has ...

Travis Dove for The Washington Post via Getty Images / The Washington Post The psychedelic drug MDMA, which has been studied as a possible mental health treatment, may finally get a chance to enter ...

The field of psychedelic research has been gaining traction, with significant interest in substances like MDMA and psilocybin for their therapeutic potential. Recently, however, the FDA advisory panel ...

A panel of experts advising the Food and Drug Administration on the use of the psychedelic MDMA for post-traumatic stress disorder found on Tuesday that the available evidence fails to show that the ...

The FDA is poised to approve the notorious party drug as a therapy. Here’s what it means, and where similar drugs stand in the US. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, ...

FDA staff raised concerns about the available safety data and limitations in the study design for midomafetamine (MDMA) to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in briefing documents released ...