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Best of Deep Dive: Would you take MDMA to help your mental health?

As part of The Briefing’s Best of Summer Series, we’re revisiting our exclusive chat with *Kate, a patient who has undertaken MDMA-assisted therapy to treat her post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

So what actually happens to you when you take what is usually known as a party drug during a therapy session?

This chat was part of our two-part series on MDMA-assisted therapy in October, 2024.

• Part 1: An Australian clinic is ‘transforming’ lives with MDMA-assisted therapy
• Part 2: How MDMA freed Kate from PTSD

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*Not a real name.

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