Tom Shroder of the Washington Post calls MDMA, or ecstasy, The Peace Drug, because it has done so much good for the few people treated with it for post traumatic stress disorder:
Mithoefer states the case in an article he wrote for a book of scholarly essays, Psychedelic Medicine: Social, Clinical and Legal Perspectives: “The reported results [of early therapeutic use] include decreased fear and anxiety, increased openness, trust and interpersonal closeness, improved therapeutic alliance, enhanced recall of past events with an accompanying ability to examine them with new insight, calm objectivity and compassionate self-acceptance.”