Doctors in Bristol are testing whether a few doses of the drug, in conjunction with psychotherapy, could help patients overcome alcoholism more effectively than conventional treatments. Those who have completed the study have so far reported almost no relapse and no physical or psychological problems.
In comparison, eight in 10 alcoholics in England relapse within three years after current treatment approaches. Dr Ben Sessa, an addiction psychiatrist and senior research fellow at Imperial College London, and who led the trial, said: “With the very best that medical science can work with, 80% of people are drinking within three years post alcohol detox.”
Eleven people have so far completed the safety and tolerability study, which involves nine months of follow-ups. “We’ve got one person who has completely relapsed, back to previous drinking levels, we have five people who are completely dry and we have four or five who have had one or two drinks but wouldn’t reach the diagnosis of alcohol use disorder,” Sessa said.
Seems like a shit study TBH, comparing relapse rates after nine months compared with three years.
80% are drinking after three years without MDMA.
With MDMA after nine months the figure is 5-6/11 (either someone is drinking or not, the last one is Schrodingers cat?) = 45-55% back to drinking
Can't really draw any conclusions at all from this, seems the author is pushing an agenda which is simply not backed by his own evidence based on an inadequate sample and bending words to mean what he wants.
Shit work D- try again Mr Nutt, and maybe don't sample the test meds while working.
Here's some other research. While 96.6% of festival-goers use alcohol compared with 79.5% for MDMA, MDMA is responsible for 100% of the deaths.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n … quest-toldThe deputy state coroner, Harriet Grahame, is examining the deaths of Nathan Tran, 18, Diana Nguyen, 21, Joseph Pham, 23, Callum Brosnan, 19, Joshua Tam, 22, and Ross-King, 19, who all died from MDMA toxicity or complications of MDMA use at music festivals between December 2017 and January 2019.
Barratt said regulation of the supply of the drug “could prevent some of the harms” associated with the drug, and pointed to research in the US looking to use MDMA to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
“It doesn’t solve the problem [because] there are idiosyncratic reactions to a normal dose of MDMA that we see in the literature so ... it’s not possible to say MDMA is safe, it’s not that simple,” she said.
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