"Who Owns Ecstasy?"

1. In the DEA hearings, there were only about six, rather than "scores of psychiatrists arguing that the drug's therapeutic potential merited classification as a prescription medicine."

2. NIDA has funded only two, not "three research centers to test MDMA in humans, and none to look at therapeutic use of the drug or how the context in which it is used might change the risks." The MAPS-facilitated Phase 1 MDMA safety study conducted by Dr. Charles Grob at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center was not funded by NIDA but was primarily funded by Harbor-UCLA itself.

3. Studies on the therapeutic use of MDMA are under way only in Spain (funded by MAPS), and not in Switzerland or Israel. MAPS is seeking to support MDMA/PTSD research in Israel but no such study has yet been approved. Heffter Research Institute and, to much a smaller extent MAPS, have funded basic MDMA research in Switzerland, but no MDMA therapy studies are currently under development.

4. It was during the MTV Ecstasy special, not the 48 Hours Ecstasy special, that a doctor showed an Ecstasy-abusing teen and her concerned mother a computer model of her brain and declared it "almost moth-eaten."

-- Rick Doblin