A woman retrieves items from the rubble of her destroyed home after a wildfire came through the area in Talent, Oregon, Oregon, U.S. September 21, 2020.
PTSD is a disorder caused by very stressful events and can significantly disrupt patients' lives.
While PTSD is commonly associated with combat, civilians are not immune to it.
Psychoactive ingredients, whether derived from cannabis, LSD or magic mushrooms, have long captivated mental health researchers in their quest for treatments.
MAPS, founded in 1986, said it hopes the MDMA-assisted therapy will be approved next year and inspire other researchers studying therapeutic psychedelics.
Persons:
Jim Urquhart, Manas Mishra, Pooja Desai
Organizations:
REUTERS, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, U.S . Food, Drug Administration, Thomson
Locations:
Talent , Oregon , Oregon, U.S, United States, Bengaluru