Posted by beardedlady on September 7, 2002, at 10:07:38
In reply to Re: Please be careful everyone, posted by Dinah on September 7, 2002, at 9:10:51
I saw this thread, and it sparked some bit of memory about something I must have read or heard on NPR.
Anyway, the piece was talking about how psychiatrists had been studying the use of ecstasy in severely depressed patients and how it was a very successful drug with lots of promise--I think for patients who were usually treatment resistant or bipolar (it's foggy, but it's a memory nonetheless!). A psychiatrist (a prominent one, as I recall) was saying she was very disappointed because they were unable to get grant money to continue the studies due to all the prejudice about the drug and since it had been made illegal. I think they had even found similar things with LSD.
Does any of this ring a bell with anyone? Now that I think further about it, I realize that I'd read the article aloud to my husband while we were driving somewhere, so it must've been in a magazine--like Health or Fitness.
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