Re:Suicidal Vet Calls MDMA Treatment ‘a Miracle'
by fhood on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:32PM
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I can have a beer every night for the rest of my life and experience little to no permanent effects. Long term MDMA use on the other hand has been shown to cause "marked neurodegeneration in striatal, hippocampal, prefrontal, and occipital serotonergic axon terminals. Neurotoxic damage to serotonergic axon terminals has been shown to persist for more than two years."
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Re:Suicidal Vet Calls MDMA Treatment ‘a Miracle'
by mnm1 on Thursday August 16, 2018 @02:35PM
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There's simply no way to substantiate your claim. Plenty of people who drink daily get sick and die from the effects of alcohol, including drinking one beer a day. Also, if you're comparing one beer, you need to compare it to the equivalent MDMA dose which would not cause any psychoactive effects just like one beer typically doesn't.
Re:Suicidal Vet Calls MDMA Treatment ‘a Miracle'
by Nursie on Thursday August 16, 2018 @02:07PM
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> I can have a beer every night for the rest of my life and experience little to no permanent effects.
And a certain percentage of people that tried that would get addicted and die from either acute or chronic effects.
Addiction potential and usage patterns are part of the harm profile of a drug. Alcohol is measurably worse.