I'd not take the pill. I think it's too risky. The guy is advocating and defending it's use when even he admits the trials are inconclusive, that indicates to me that he's out to make a quick buck rather than contibute to the clinical models about how PTSD occurs.
You can't wipe memory. even he isn't claiming that. The only thing that's proven to work in curing PTSD is evoking the memory (not immediately but sometime after the event) and reprocessing it to make it less traumatic. Having a partial block with other bits still causing trauma would be the worst of all worlds. PTSD with no cure. Like the effects of the date rape drug, trauma and memory supression. No thanks. Not until it's proved to work.
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