{"id":3251,"date":"2005-04-29T16:11:57","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T00:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/04\/29\/ecstasy-is-good-for-you\/"},"modified":"2005-04-29T16:11:57","modified_gmt":"2005-04-30T00:11:57","slug":"ecstasy-is-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/29\/ecstasy-is-good-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecstasy is good for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tEcstasy&#8217;s a good drug for treating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/7613571\/site\/newsweek\/\">anxiety and stuff:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Just ask Marcela Gomez and Sue Stevens, two women who used MDMA in underground therapy. Gomez, 47, a rape victim, spent years suffering from panic attacks. Ecstasy, she says, helped her express her fears more openly. &#8220;MDMA lets you open a door and not be traumatized,&#8221; she says. In 1996, Stevens, now 36, and her dying husband, Shane, used MDMA illegally to explore why they were wasting their last months fighting or not talking at all. The couple were lucid through the experience, occasionally telephoning a therapist for guidance and calmly planning Shane&#8217;s funeral. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t like after drinking, when you can&#8217;t remember what was said,&#8221; recalls Stevens. &#8220;It was all still there.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ask you HMO to pay for it just yet, however &#8211; it&#8217;s kinda like experimental right now.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecstasy&#8217;s a good drug for treating anxiety and stuff: Just ask Marcela Gomez and Sue Stevens, two women who used MDMA in underground therapy. Gomez, 47, a rape victim, spent years suffering from panic attacks. Ecstasy, she says, helped her express her fears more openly. &#8220;MDMA lets you open a door and not be traumatized,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/29\/ecstasy-is-good-for-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ecstasy is good for you&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Qr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}