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I've been keeping an eye, albeit not close, on this, and have mixed feelings erring happy that it's slowly trudging forward. I've had friends with PTSD for whom ketamine, as the most contemporary similar treatment that comes to mind, did wonders-- and others for whom it became a vice. In my experience PTSD tends to respond very well to that kind of 'break through' treatment; some people just need something to kick down their mental walls hard enough that they can start building roads out (ie. different behaviors, which later only need to be reinforced, not initiated). PTSD is deeply paralyzing.

I always thought a nontrivial % of HN users were on medications like adderall. The ambiguities-- the great potential good, likewise the great potential evil, and weighing them coldly-- of using a medication that can be therapeutically used or abused are pretty familiar to everyone I've known on any scheduled medication. Of course, the 'therapy session' nature of therapeutic MDMA and ketamine complicates that; you have to trust the therapist pretty much completely, and sadly any situation of total surrender is very easy to abuse, no matter how much it might have helped.