A review by campbelltaral
I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World by Rachel Nuwer

challenging dark hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Well-written and researched, the story is wild and at times infuriating: subpar science + political agenda = unnecessary federal classification of a drug that no one is addicted to while turning a blind eye to oxycontin and the subsequent opiate crisis we're dealing with today. No, MDMA does not cause brain damage, that was the shoddy science using methamphetamine, not MDMA. Instead, psychedelic therapy is helping the worst of trauma patients heal, while giving recreational users a boost in interconnectivity and rejection of society's ugliness that's tearing us apart.