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| cammie |
Bad Science Slandered a Generation's Favorite Drug. Now a New Study Aims to Undo the Damage.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0410/spartos.php
"On February 24, the DEA issued Dr. Michael Mithoefer a Schedule I license to legally obtain Ecstasy for a study of its potential therapeutic effects in the treatment of PTSD. Researchers hope that the drug, which melts anxiety, will help PTSD patients talk openly about the experiences that scarred them."....
"Doblin's group stands to create a new landscape for Ecstasy, which has been at the center of the nation's war on drugs. The old one—with its hidden agendas, career-obsessed scientists, powerful patrons, and switched pills—has only recently been scorched. It all began in September, when the journal Science published a retraction from a group of Johns Hopkins scientists who'd discovered that a bottle they thought contained Ecstasy was in fact filled with methamphetamine, commonly known as speed. The mix-up corrupted the results of a study, published in Science in September 2002, which found that a single, recreational dose of Ecstasy was so damaging it could lead to Parkinson's disease. Another study, published in the European Journal of Pharmacology, would also be recalled."....
"In the end, the ones most negatively affected by the studies may be those they purport to help. "I'm very concerned about drug use, but the way to tackle it is not to misrepresent scientific evidence," says Blakemore. "What's going to be the impact of these studies? Young people won't believe anything they read."
this really proves that we can't rely on scientific studies either....just do what feels good! |
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| Ste |
| i think this has already been posted but yeh its good news :) |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by cammie
this really proves that we can't rely on scientific studies either....just do what feels good! |
LMAO, great logic.
there should be more uninfluenced scientific studies in this country. A lot are funded by groups that benifit from the results.
I wish I was on the research team, since I do have ethics, and I doubt some groups funding would make me alter results the way they want. |
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| UWM |
| I know they started doing this over 2 years ago in Spain, glad to see that the United States is at least going somewhere in the right direction. |
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