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A trip to the doctor’s office could someday mean a trip inside the doctor’s office, if researchers calling for further study into the use of psychedelics for treating illness get their way.

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Vancouver is one of four international sites where research into MDMA-assisted psychotherapy is currently underway.

Researchers with MAPS Canada (the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), with the approval of Health Canada, administered their first session in Vancouver in February.

Mark Haden, chairman of the board of MAPS, said the study is in the second of three stages of clinical trials and “on track” for MDMA to become a legal prescription drug in about five years.

The research is based on an American pilot study in which 83 per cent of participants responded positively to such treatment, versus 25 per cent in a placebo group.