Reply #30: the problem is a theraputic user needs counseling [View All]

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E's not like any other prescription drug in that it should just be prescribed and then you take it every day. It requires a professional psychologist to interact with the user and help guide them through their feelings. The reason why I think it has value is because it allows the person to sort through the underlying causes of their depression that generally aren't chemical in nature but because they have issues they need to work out. That was the case for me. Taking endless regimens of scripts without any counselling didn't do anything for me because I simply needed to talk honestly about my feelings and MDMA helped me do that.

As for people getting stung out, there could be a variety of causes for that. I think one of the most likely is that it is often cut with other substances (heroin for instance) that ARE physically addictive. Granted E can be psycholigically addictive because it feels good, and people like to feel good so they keep doing it. However, those addictions tend to not last long because eventually you're tolerance of it builds and it won't feel the way it used to and you realize, "Why am I still doing this?" That and the $25-50 dollar a pill price tag will end it fairly quick.

I do realize that there are some problems with E that need to be addresses. It's just that criminalizing it doesn't stop those problems it actually makes them worse, the same as with all drugs.