PMID- 25561485
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150914
LR  - 20180724
IS  - 1472-1465 (Electronic)
IS  - 0007-1250 (Linking)
VI  - 206
IP  - 1
DP  - 2015 Jan
TI  - Making a medicine out of MDMA.
PG  - 4-6
LID - 10.1192/bjp.bp.114.152751 [doi]
AB  - From its first use 3,4,-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) has been recognised 
      as a drug with therapeutic potential. Research on its clinical utility stopped 
      when it entered the recreational drug scene but has slowly resurrected in the 
      past decade. Currently there is enough evidence for MDMA to be removed from its 
      Schedule 1 status of 'no medical use' and moved into Schedule 2 (alongside other 
      misused but useful medicines such as heroin and amphetamine). Such a regulatory 
      move would liberate its use as a medicine for patients experiencing severe mental 
      illnesses such as treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder.
CI  - Royal College of Psychiatrists.
FAU - Sessa, Ben
AU  - Sessa B
AD  - Ben Sessa, MBBS, MRCPsych, AddAction, Weston-Super-Mare, and Cardiff University; 
      David Nutt, DM, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, Division 
      of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.
FAU - Nutt, David
AU  - Nutt D
AD  - Ben Sessa, MBBS, MRCPsych, AddAction, Weston-Super-Mare, and Cardiff University; 
      David Nutt, DM, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, Division 
      of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.
LA  - eng
PT  - Editorial
PL  - England
TA  - Br J Psychiatry
JT  - The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
JID - 0342367
RN  - KE1SEN21RM (N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine)
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine/adverse effects/*therapeutic use
MH  - Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/*drug therapy
EDAT- 2015/01/07 06:00
MHDA- 2015/09/15 06:00
CRDT- 2015/01/07 06:00
PHST- 2015/01/07 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/01/07 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/09/15 06:00 [medline]
AID - S000712500023729X [pii]
AID - 10.1192/bjp.bp.114.152751 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Br J Psychiatry. 2015 Jan;206(1):4-6. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.114.152751.