This is an article on the topic named above. I found it gives a decent account of drug studies and of pioneers and has some powerful anecdotes. It is wonderful to see it published in the Post as a veteran and a granddaughter of a war vet. I dearly hope we can open our eyes to the reality that what we are doing to treat PTS Disorder is not working well and as our military returns from the horrors they have endured we simply can not lean on the traditional means of treatment for this illness or expect the VA to take any significant steps in new solutions.



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Also you may want to Google/Wikipedia : "Ibogaine", It is a West African drug from the country of Gabon which had brought great success, worldwide(of course not in the US) in interrupting drug addictions - be they to heroin, methadone, speed, tobacco, and a host of other addictive drugs.

War On Drugs Propagandists who have a lock on the conversation in the media on all drugs, and having our private and public Drug Rehabilitation Centers maintain a steady 90% failure rate in treating addiction, thus ensuring a perpetual non-stop flow of customers for them, than there ever would be a financial incentive for actually having people get over their illnesses.

There are so many "medications" we call drugs that could powerfully change the course of our afflicted society, however it is much more profitable to keep people sick and suffering in this money driven culture that we find ourselves in the middle of, so maybe MDMA and Ibogaine would not be a good thing to have in the US for addiction treatment, since it would undermine a lot of sacred institutions and beliefs.

Unfortunately all of this is still targeted at the symptoms of illness and not the causes, but as in the case of the rape, sometimes we can only work with what has already happened.