MindFuel Blog

The team at High Alert have issued a notification to let you know that they've identified serious harm believed to be linked with the consumption of a substance being misrepresented as MDMA in the Hawke’s Bay area. A small number of people were admitted to hospital after consuming this substance and experiencing serious harm. The effects after consumption are not consistent...

The New Zealand Government will urgently legalize pill testing before the summer festival season. Pill testing allows harm reduction organizations to test illicit street drugs at festivals and events so as to tell users what chemical(s) are actually in them, as many illicit street pills that are sold as ecstasy actually contain other substances instead or as well as MDMA,...

Promising peer-reviewed results published in Psychopharmacology On September 8, 2018, the results of the first clinical trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of social anxiety were published in the peer-reviewed journal Psychopharmacology. All 12 participants in the small pilot study were adults on the autism spectrum, a population that commonly experiences severe social anxiety. Sponsored by the non-profit Multidisciplinary...