A Ukrainian MP has suggested his country should become the centre of European psychedelic research to provide assisted therapy for the estimated 25 million people at risk of PTSD as a result of the ongoing invasion by Russia.
At a meeting in the European Parliament last week a Ukrainian MP urged MEPs to help establish his country as the centre of European psychedelic research, in part to provide psychedelic treatment for the estimated 25 million people at risk of chronic mental health disorders such as PTSD as a result of the ongoing invasion by Russia.
As the conflict approaches the end of its second year the MP insisted that MDMA-assisted therapy has to be used in the frontline of treatment for PTSD due to the large number of patients Ukrainian mental health services are currently providing support for.
Dmytro Gurin, a Ukrainian MP in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Servant of the People party said, “We have this catastrophic challenge ahead, and such challenges, they need bold decisions. We are forced to think if we can use psychedelic-assisted therapy as a first line, because of the quantity of patients.”
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