When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declined to approve MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) last year, the details of its objections were not ...

Efforts to make MDMA legally available as a psychotherapeutic catalyst hit a daunting roadblock in August. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declined to approve a new drug application submitted ...

First came the rejection, and then came the retractions. On Friday, in a decision that would have been stunning just six months ago, the Food and Drug Administration decided against approving ...

There is a groundswell of support for the use of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) in the treatment of severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Though the use of the drug is still ...

WASHINGTON — Federal health advisers voted Tuesday against a first-of-a-kind proposal to use the mind-altering drug MDMA as a treatment for PTSD, handing a setback to psychedelic advocates who hope to ...

Medical research into using the psychedelic MDMA to treat post-traumatic stress disorder is being called into question following allegations that a clinical trial investigating the treatment was ...

Efforts to make MDMA legally available as a psychotherapeutic catalyst hit a daunting roadblock on Tuesday when an expert panel overwhelmingly voted to recommend that the Food and Drug Administration ...

Nick Carter says easing controls on MDMA will allow drug to be used as alternative treatment for those with PTSD ...

Travis Dove for The Washington Post via Getty Images / The Washington Post The psychedelic drug MDMA, which has been studied as a possible mental health treatment, may finally get a chance to enter ...