How Psychiatrists Are Preparing to Prescribe MDMA

Some therapists aren’t just running ecstasy studies — they’re also enrolling

Jessica Wapner
Elemental
Published in
8 min readAug 7, 2019

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BBen Sessa was 18 years old in 1990 and working as a DJ in the early days of the London rave scene. “I was very much exposed to ecstasy,” he says. He doesn’t want to discuss the drugs he may or may not have taken back then. But he does admit to taking…

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Jessica Wapner
Elemental

Jessica Wapner is a freelance science journalist from New York with bylines in Wired, the New York Times, Popular Science and many other major publications.