The emotional hangover from Nigel McCourry’s seven months in Iraq as a U.S. Marine plagued him for years, keeping him up at nights, troubling his sleep with recurring nightmares, and isolating him from friends and family. After he was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in 2011, McCourry tried “weekly talk therapy and more drugs than I could keep account of,” none of which helped much.
The one thing that worked for McCourry, leading to “huge breakthroughs” that immediately resolved his sleep issues, was psychotherapy facilitated by MDMA, which was banned by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1985 but could be available by prescription as soon as 2021. Jacob Sullum says the rehabilitation of MDMA is directly related to the rehabilitation of veterans like McCourry, who participated in a study that was reported this week in The Lancet Psychiatry.
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