Traumatic Stress widely overlook in health evaluations

[Re-Ride]

We see many threads here of members dealing with what may be symptoms of stress rather than side effects of their medication.

Stress that is symptomatic and on going is TSD, related to PTSD. Quality of life is diminished, interpersonal relations suffer. In our highly competitive fast paced win or loose society can endemic stress be correlated not only to health status but to crime and violence?

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

 

[Nelson Vergel]

"Patients also had “significantly reduced” functional impairment using the Sheehan Disability Scale, with a p-value of 0.0271. MAPS said there were no serious adverse events in either the placebo or on-treatment group.

In addition, 71.2% of participants who received MDMA-assisted therapy no longer met the diagnostic criteria for PTSD at the end of the study, based on the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale. That’s in comparison to 47.6% of participants on placebo.

And 46.2% of patients met the remission criteria in the MDMA-assisted group, compared to 21.4% in the placebo."

MAPS plans to seek approval of MDMA-assisted therapy this year after second positive PhIII trial

MAPS Public Benefit Corporation is touting another set of promising Phase III results investigating its MDMA-assisted therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with the trial hitting primary and secondary endpoints as the organization prepares for an NDA filing this year. The trial...

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