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Congress is on track to approve legislation that would mark a significant advance in U.S. policy toward psychedelics.
Tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act of 2024 is a provision to fund clinical trials using psychedelic substances to treat active duty members of the military.
By Rick Perry, Marcus Luttrell, Morgan Luttrell & Dakota Meyer
As the opioid epidemic continues to grip our nation, claiming lives, destroying families, and burdening communities, it is imperative that we explore every viable solution. Among these potential solutions is a powerful, natural, non-addictive substance known as ibogaine.
More than twice as many U.S. service members may have been injured in recent attacks in Iraq and Syria than the Pentagon previously disclosed, U.S. defense officials said on Monday.
Experts and advocates—including a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) official and a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—recently convened for a Harvard University panel to discuss efforts to expand veteran access to psychedelic-assisted therapy.
The fentanyl crisis continues to rage across the United States. Families from Alaska to Maine have felt the impact of this crisis driven by a manufactured opioid shake them to their core. Unfortunately, this crisis has reached our service members. In the U.S. Army and Navy, our two largest branches, we’ve learned that fentanyl deaths are on the rise.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Morgan Luttrell (R-TX) offered an amendment to the Department of Defense (DOD) Appropriations Act of 2024 that would provide funding for clinical trials on psychedelics as a modality to treat brain injuries sustained by servicemembers and veterans while serving our country.
The House approved an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations bill Wednesday that would provide $15 million to the Defense Department to conduct medical clinical trials for veterans using
WASHINGTON – As a highly decorated Navy SEAL training commander’s career hangs in the balance, three Republican lawmakers are demanding answers about the integrity of the investigation that is sending him to a punishment hearing, The Post has exclusively learned.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Morgan Luttrell (R-TX) led a letter to United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra expressing concern over the lack of effort to address Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and advocating for HHS to establish a National Traumatic Brain Injury Task Force to transform the treatmen
WASHINGTON – Congressman Morgan Luttrell (R-TX), Chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs (DAMA), authored the Veterans’ Benefits Improvement Act (H.R. 1530), which the House of Representatives passed today with bipartisan support. The legislation now heads to the Senate for consideration.