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Sept. 12, 2024: What’s next for MDMA after FDA rejection? Interpreting a lost Euripidean find

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Basem Gehad
University of Colorado Boulder scholars Yvona Trnka-Amrhein and John Gibert have deciphered and interpreted a papyrus they believe contains fragments of writings from the Greek tragedian Euripides.

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