Posted by med_empowered on October 2, 2005, at 16:40:14
In reply to Re: Does Ectasy Cause Brain Damage and Depression? » jerrympls, posted by SLS on October 2, 2005, at 8:22:17
Apparently, ecstasy was synthesized way back when...1920s, maybe? In the 70s and 80s, it popped up a lot in avante garde therapists' offices, gay clubs, and bars for the young and moneyed. I can't recall the reasons for illegalization; maybe a few people had bad experiences? Anyway, given the Puritanical outlook that characterizes both the DEA and the conventional medical establishment, its really not all that surprising that ecstasy did get shedule I'd (before any conclusive research into risks/benefits was done, mind you)...its also not surprising that the government cranked up the propaganda machine and spewed out bad studies and half-truths to justify the $$$ spent on keeping ecstasy (and other drugs) illegal. **sigh** From what I understand, there remained some underground therapists using ecstasy for certain problems--PTSD, abnormal grief, etc.--but they were definitely in the minority. There's now some good research on using ecstasy for PTSD (it works), so it might make a (very limited) comeback into the mainstream psychiatric community.
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