Professionals know that mental health is complex – and that MDMA won’t help | Letters
19-04-2024 19:29 via theguardian.com

Professionals know that mental health is complex – and that MDMA won’t help | Letters

The suggestion that the drug may be more helpful than regulated care for mental ill health is dangerous, writes Dr Rachel McNultyRose Cartwright’s article (I was the poster girl for OCD. Then I began to question everything I’d been told about mental illness, 13 April) claims to expose “the fallacy at the heart of mental healthcare”, arguing that the sector – including but not limited to psychiatrists, occupational therapists, social workers, employment advisers, psy
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