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Rick Doblin, ‘unleashed,’ blasts FDA over Lykos drug rejection and turns to international push for MDMA treatment

Rick Doblin, ‘unleashed,’ blasts FDA over Lykos drug rejection and turns to international push for MDMA treatment
August 17, 2024



It’s been a troublesome week for the psychedelics pioneer Rick Doblin. 

First, the Meals and Drug Management declined to approve the MDMA-assisted treatment for post-traumatic tension dysfunction advanced by means of Lykos Therapeutics, an organization that he based. Tomorrow, the magazine Psychopharmacology retracted 3 research at the remedy, by which many authors have been related to Lykos or the nonprofit Doblin based, the Multidisciplinary Affiliation for Psychedelic Research (MAPS). 

On Thursday, Lykos introduced it might reduce 75% of its team of workers — and Doblin left the corporate’s board. Now, MAPS is slicing 33% of its personal 42-person team of workers, it mentioned, so that you could preserve assets because it hones its focal point to drug decriminalization and globalizing get right of entry to to MDMA. 

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