MDMA is an illegal drug that can enhance a person's sense of well-being and empathy toward other people. (Getty Images) An independent panel for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rejected the ...

This photo provided by the Center for Psychedelic Therapy Research shows a Yehuda Lab MDMA-assisted therapy treatment room at the James J. Peters Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the ...

People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may soon have a new treatment option: MDMA. MDMA is the chemical compound found in the drug commonly called ecstasy. In August, the Food and Drug ...

Rick Doblin first dreamed of the therapeutic potential of the psychedelic drug MDMA in a hippie house in downtown Santa Cruz, in an era when fears of bad trips and ruined lives loomed large in the ...

Lori Tipton is among the growing number of people who say that MDMA, also known as ecstasy, saved their lives. Raised in New Orleans by a mother with untreated bipolar disorder who later killed ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Federal health advisers voted Tuesday against a first-of-a-kind proposal to use the mind-altering drug MDMA as a treatment for PTSD, handing a setback to psychedelic advocates who hope to ...

Credit: Getty Images. Significant factors limit MDMA’s ability to be used in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. Significant factors limit MDMA’s ability to be used in the treatment of ...

The Food and Drug Administration declined Friday to approve an application to treat post-traumatic stress disorder using the drug midomafetamine, also known as MDMA or the street drug ecstasy, citing ...

Congress approved $20 million for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to begin MDMA-assisted therapies, but money isn’t all that’s needed to get the psychotherapy to veterans. Many veteran ...

Federal health regulators are questioning the safety and evidence behind the first bid to use MDMA, the mind-altering club drug, as a treatment for PTSD, part of a decadeslong effort by advocates to ...