{"id":49564,"date":"2020-01-21T14:10:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T14:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/mdma-just-received-early-but-limited-fda-approval\/"},"modified":"2020-01-21T14:10:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T14:10:33","slug":"mdma-just-received-early-but-limited-fda-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/mdma-just-received-early-but-limited-fda-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"MDMA Just Received Early But Limited FDA Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"

Molly is officially medicine, but don\u2019t break out<\/u><\/a> the glow sticks just yet.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) announced that the FDA granted Expanded Access designation to MDMA<\/u><\/a>, a Schedule I drug often taken by festival goers and nightclubbers. The FDA\u2019s Expanded Access<\/u><\/a> or \u201ccompassionate use\u201d program allows terminally ill patients or those with difficult-to-treat conditions to legally use experimental drugs that haven\u2019t yet received full FDA approval<\/u><\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe commend [the] FDA for recognizing the great unmet medical need of PTSD by allowing access to MDMA-assisted psychotherapy on a compassionate basis for people with treatment-resistant PTSD,\u201d said MAPS\u2019s founder, Rick Doblin, in a press release<\/u><\/a>. \u201cWe are delighted to begin generating real-world evidence about this potential new treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, patients looking to sign up for MDMA treatment will need to get in line. According to MAPS, the FDA has only approved 50 patients across 10 US clinics under the Expanded Access program. After the first 35 patients undergo MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, MAPS can potentially increase the total number of approved patients. <\/p>\n

Furthermore, only patients with \u201cmoderate to severe treatment-resistant PTSD\u201d can qualify \u2014 so that means they\u2019ll need plenty of medical documentation to back-up their treatment-resistant claims. And they\u2019ll need $15,000<\/u><\/a> for the treatment, too.<\/p>\n