WASHINGTON — Federal health regulators are questioning the safety and evidence behind the first bid to use MDMA, the mind-altering club drug, as a treatment for PTSD, part of a decadeslong effort by advocates to move psychedelic drugs into the medical mainstream. In their assessment, FDA scientists said that patients who received MDMA and talk therapy showed “rapid, clinically meaningful, …
US drug officials will move to redefine marijuana as a less dangerous drug, citing that it is less likely to be abused than heroin or MDMA. The DEA will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple-effects across the country. Once OMB signs off, the …
Thiruvananthapuram: Few months ago, a shocking video surfaced on social media in which a young woman was seen screaming loudly under the influence of drugs after being caught by police from a lodge in a central Kerala town during a raid. "In earlier days, substance abuse cases were reported more in colleges, now more cases are reported in schools and …
Life has been far from normal for the residents of a high-rise apartment complex at Edachira, near Thrikkakara, for nearly a fortnight now. While the newly married couples have brought in their parents for company, the elderly living next to the apartment concerned hardly ever venture out,” said N.A. Nagaraju, District Police Chief, admitted that the soaring influx of drugs …