Israel seeks to break ground with MDMA-assisted therapy Nachum Pachenick talks about his experience of being treated for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using MDMA, the active component in the drug known to nightclubbers as ecstasy, at his home in Sde Boaz. \\nThe treatment's success on Pachenick and dozens of others has led Israel's health ministry to approve its own pilot for MDMA-assisted therapy for people with treatment-resistant PTSD. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES