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Reps. Jack Bergman , Lou Correa , Morgan Luttrell , and Jimmy Panettea joined Medal of Honor Recipientand other veterans on Wednesday to unveil an art installation at the Capitol building featuring nearly 150,000 dog tags, representing the nearly 150,000 veterans who have died by suicide since 9/11. The effort is to raise awareness for how MDMA-assisted therapy can help veterans and PTSD sufferers overcome their trauma.
In mid-August, the FDA is expected to issue a decision on whether to approve MDMA, also known as ecstacy or Molly, along with traditional cognitive processing therapy as a treatment for PTSD. An advisory panel that met last month, however, recommended that the agency deny approval for the drug.found that MDMA-assisted therapy effectively eliminated the PTSD diagnosis of 71% of trial participants and rendered “clinically significant improvement” in symptoms for 86% of participants.
that MDMA “enables you to actually go into therapy and get to the root cause of your trauma without that reaction.”concerns that the studies cited by Lykos Therapeutics, the pharmaceutical company responsible for the medication and trials, had problems maintaining quality control standards.
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