Sydney psychiatrist administers MDMA therapy for trauma patients

When a Sydney psychiatrist gave a severely traumatised patient a dose of MDMA in a borrowed Melbourne clinic, the duo made global medical history and were the talk of mental health doctors around the world.

One morning in late January, Ted Cassidy’s patient took a capsule containing a drug known by recreational users as ecstasy, but which was approved for prescription in its pure form by Australian regulators last year – for the first time ever, anywhere – to assist therapy for sufferers of complex post-traumatic stress disorder. It was one of the first dosages in Australia, alongside another given by Victorian psychiatrist Eli Kotler the same week. NSW’s interpretation of the federal guidelines meant the treatment could not be done in Sydney. Dr Ted Cassidy, pictured in his Sydney medical centre, has just administered one of the first psychedelic treatments in the world.Cassidy says MDMA helps highly traumatised patients who are too anxious to talk or even think about their past, leaving them unable to process i

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