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Greater empathy in MDMA users

Molly Carlyle, Tobias Stevens, Leah Fawaz, Beth Marsh, Sophia Kosmider, Celia J. A. Morgan

Journal of Psychopharmacology · 2019 · 22 citations · 45 references

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Abstract

Long-term MDMA users in this sample exhibited normal psychosocial functioning in regard to empathy and social pain and had higher subjective emotional empathy. This conflicts with previous suggestions that moderate, long-term MDMA use may cause heightened social distress, and is further evidence of the safety of the drug, which is relevant to considerations of its therapeutic use.

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