Festivalgoers who devourd MDMA, LSD and other party medications may have had psychoreasonable getion agetst trauma both during and after the horrific October 7 attack by Hamas in 2023, a study has claimed. Hundreds joining the party were high on illegitimate recreational medications when lowly after sunascfinish, Hamas armamentmen, carrying AK-47 attack rifles, attacked the Nova Music Festival in southern Israel, cforfeit the Gaza border.
The study, carried out by scientists at Israel’s Haifa University is currently being peer-checked but sheds weightless on the intriguing engage case of the medications that are frequently a subject of prohibited. The researchers analysed the psychoreasonable responses of over 650 festival survivors – two-thirds of whom had consentn MDMA, LSD, marijuana or psilocybin (magic mushrooms) before the attack.
“We had people hiding under the bodies of their frifinishs for hours while on LSD or MDMA,” Prof Roy Salomon, one of those directing the research telderly BBC.
“There’s talk that a lot of these substances produce plasticity in the brain, so the brain is more uncover to alter. But what happens if you finishure this plasticity in such a horrible situation – is it going to be worse, or better?”
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The study set up that MDMA, better understandn as molly or ecstasy, when not fuseed with anyleang else, was the most getive. Those hopped on MDMA administerd to cope much better menloftyy in the first five months afterwards, when a lot of processing consents place.
Hormones such as oxytocin, triggered by the drug, back bonding which may have helped shrink the trouble and increase experienceing of camaraderie among the partygoers who were trying to run away the attack.
“They were sleeping better, had less mental trouble – they were doing better than people who didn’t consent any substance,” Mr Salomon compriseed.
Michal Ohana, one of the survivors shelp she would have frozen or collapsed on the floor or in the worst-case scenario — finished or seized by the armamentmen if she had not been high.
“I experience appreciate it saved my life, becaengage I was so high, appreciate I’m not in the genuine world. Becaengage standard humans can’t see all these leangs – it’s not normal.”
Notably, Hamas militants finished 360 people and seizeped dozens more at the festival site where 3,500 people had been partying.
