America rejected MDMA, but Australia didn’t. Here’s why psychedelics have been embraced Down Under

In Sydney, Australia, Rebecca Huntley has been looking for psychological care for thirty years when she heard her experience with MDMA -run therapy from another straightforward friend. At that time, the MDMA, also known as the Party Drug Extecial, was declared illegal in Australia Since 1987Despite research, the drug can cure mental illness. But Rebecca’s friend attached her to the underground therapist, which provides this service to an elected customer. After a strict scrutiny, his first session took place at Rebecca’s house, which is a quiet place surrounded by trees.

“I felt as if I needed anything other than my work,” he told the salon. “I was grinding my gears in terms of my mental health. I was very angry all the time. So I thought I wanted to go.”

Rebecca added, “It is as if you have pushed forward the pace of light at a fast point in your mental health journey.” “For me, especially in the first session, a huge amount of pain and sorrow and sorrow was released that I was trying to advance my consciousness. More was over, I realized that I was awakened in a different body, a quiet body, a body that was more ground.

Then it was a six -month process, which includes two more visits with MDMA and the following follow -up integration sessions. Rebecca wrote a book, “Savage“About his journey.

“This is really with the birth of three children in terms of life -changing experiences,” he said.

In 2023, became Australia First Psychological therapy with the help of country MDMA and Slovosbin in the world to legalize, strictly under highly specific terms: Treatment -Post Post Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Treatment Depression And MDMA for Selosbin (“Magic” mushrooms).

In the United States, psychiadic addiction. Sania led by the charismatic Rick Dublin and its multilateral association for Psychidic Studies (MAPS), which shows important medical studies. The surprising results To treat PTSD with MDMA. Drugs can Patients keep away from prevention and anxietyWhich can be useful for physicians who are trying to open someone. Dublin believed that psychiatrics could change the world, and Openly acknowledged Like Medical Marjivana, Psychiadic Therapy was also a backdoor of legal status.

A decade ago, the maps added their pharmaceutical development arm to a subsidiary known as the Maps Public Benefit Corporation, later Rename This is the Laicos therapatic. But last year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejected MDMA as a prescription drug, which raised the issue with the scientific rigor of lycos, and the hopes of patients and psychonouses alike Pushed.

“I was quite disappointed at some questions that were asked [at the FDA hearing] Dr. Stephen Bright, a specialist at Edthh Coon University in Perth, Australia, told Salon that people did not make a real understanding of MDMA by asking questions clearly. “There were concerns that after being administered by MDMA, people could cause trouble with other substances, and that the course I teach, we should teach students not to frame things in the model of this disease. Therefore, it is a disappointment to see this model to a prominent US government.

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Since the future of medicinal MDMA in the United States seems uncertain, is there a lesson from Australia to learn?

If the United States had Rick Dublin, Peter Hunt and his wife, Opera singer Tania de Jong -un in Australia, is the power. Behind the couple Mind Madison Australia (MMA) – essentially below the map below them. Hunt, a billionaire investment banker, when he was thirteen years old, his father was harassed by depriving him of suicide. After a showroom trip in Amsterdam, the pair was encouraged to launch MMA.

Tania told Salon, “This experience was so powerful that we launched a charity to help the legal development of psychiatric help -driven treatment in Australia and to ensure safe and equal access to the treatment of these changes. Feeling forced to help. “

Like the FDA, Australia’s Treatment Administration (TGA) already refused to clear MDMA and Selosbin, rejecting MMA’s initial request in October 2022 on this basis, There was considerable evidence, the potential health risks, and the secret drugs for blacks. The market but just a few months later, in February, TGA suddenly turned it on, Transmit From MDMA Schedule 9, for prohibited substances such as heroin, up to schedule 8, a category for controlled medicines.

This is the case, MMA mobilized an immense campaign to write a letter, and flooded with TGA More than 3,000 submissions To those who describe how the substances have helped them or why they should be legalized. They were primarily personal, not professional, the point of view, but it was apparently enough to overcome this decision.

Referring to a new research on Psychidick Medicine, TGA eventually allowed MDMA and Selosbin to treat treatment. Prominent researchers like Professor David Nut, a famous neuro scientist from Imperial College London, flown to show their support. The decision was still controversial for some experts, who Caution Against moving forward, psychiatics are not for everyone and some weak patients are really worse after traveling. Meanwhile, Shakes accused TGA of countering peer pressure (“Common TGA, Cool”). TGA replied that benefits Out Risks

Tania called the criticism “nonsense”.

“There is a lot of evidence of clinical trials to support the safe and effective use of these treatments in the clinical environment,” he said. “We have a mental health epidemic in Australia, which is estimated that there are 4 out of 4 people with mental illness. For more than 50 years, there has been no significant innovations in the treatment of mental health. Further research is important – we are financing many modern trials.

So why is TGA FDA more flexible?

“Our advocacy efforts focused on one Restraint Tania explained that MDMA and Selosbin were resetting as unregistered medicines, while the maps were pursuing MDMA registration. “With registration in the United States, it is likely that MDMA is more widely accessible to PPTSD and is able to use Lab Labels of other related mental illnesses where there is research support for it. In Australia, MDMA is only available as unregistered medicine. By pursuing, we have been able to support limited access to the most needy, while the basis of evidence is growing to support widespread access.

According to Tania, the model is more bound to the states than it is, but allows each physician to write at its discretion. But only by the Ethics Committee, they can become a competent version.

“Most psychologists do not have such experience with research to write a protocol that is approved by the Ethics Committee, which is why how many authorized prescriptions in Australia,” Brightly explained. “

As a result, the rollout has been slow – with For the first time The non-research medical prescription for 180 mg MDMA was written only by a Melbourne doctor in January last year-and it came with an expensive price. Clearon Clinic, Australia First private Psychiadic Therapy Center that opened in February last year accuses eye -driven 27,000 Australian dollars (about US $ 16,500) for the entire nine -month course, mostly arriving for Ausis. Medical hashish is also legal in Australia, but it has such a prohibited price 78 % Patients still score from dealers.

“I am afraid that those who are not sick will not be able to access it – and frustrated people will do disappointing work,” said Bright. “My anxiety is that people will either access these treatments in the underground environment or try the DIY approach, and this can potentially harm. We really have MDMA and other psychiatics The poison hotline calls have been seen significantly.

Recreation Molly is still illegal in Australia, as is developed or imported by crime syndicate ‘The fearlessnessMafia tribes from southern Italy who have made their wealth in Australian drug games Rising grass In Outback in 2016, Passcol Barbaro, a Moby Family of the Back A plot To smuggling 4.4 tonnes of pelted tomatoes in tomatoes to smuggle 15 million existing pills, Shot Leaving friends’ home in Sydney via biker gang. And since the drug is forbidden, what is not inside it and they often mix in other substances: recently, the festivals have been the target of the party. nitazene poisonAn artificial opium.

Rebecca said, “I think the initial evidence is that it can change life again, so I’m very excited.” “But I have to say that there is something treacherous about how it is going on and who has access to it. And of course, here is a massive underground … my physician with whom I work What is just advanced, so hard, so professional … The person is treating the person or is ready for therapy.

There are also efforts to reduce the cost.

“The MMA has set up a Patient Support Fund to help the needy, which otherwise cannot afford treatment at the fund the therapy program with up to 50 % of the cost,” Tania said. “In addition, we are seeing that the Finders start supporting therapeutic treatment. The Work Corps and the NDI have subsidized for some patients, the Department of Veterans has announced that they are funded by the end of March 2025. Will begin to evaluate the applications, and several private health insurance is developing a pilot program for their members.

Another company, Emerya, The first respondents are offering therapy trials with the help of the first MDMA tied with PTSD.

Another danger that may be posed is moral panic. Media is definitely encouraging drug use to be sensational, then there are calls to ban this “sick dirt”, but sanctity certainly offers no solution to mental health crisis or fact I prevent drug use. In 2001, an under -supervision facility of Australian -administered injection Unite the church Kings Cross opened in Sydney – a district at the center of high quantity crisis, which claims 10 % of all deaths across the country.

This was the place where narcotic users could safely injure the trained medical staff. A large quantity of any person can be attended immediately. A few years later, a newspaper sprayed pictures of dozens of syringes fell on the road on the front page. Found that used needles actually belong to a owners of a Diabetes cat Named by Trotsky, who had left his trash only for a moment only for him to spread photography and reporters.

“I am very positive, but of course. As we know with these things, the drug is very ugly and so much bullying around mental health, that it can all be exposed.” “I feel like the world is looking at us and saying, you know, how can Australia do it? And so I don’t really want us to make it ** k!”