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WASHINGTON, DC — The VA had received over 700,000 PACT Act-related claims as of last month, testing the department’s processing capacity and threatening to significantly increase the existing backlog of claims.
There’s already a large body of smaller studies with encouraging results, he explained, and now bigger studies are building on them.
“MDMA with PTSD is furthest along the regulatory pipeline, so that seems to be poised to be the first out the gate, and then probably psilocybin for depression will be a couple years after that.”
Many veterans returning to North Texas after serving combat tours struggle with post-traumatic stress. At times it can be deadly. It's such a problem that some veterans are turning to psychedelic therapy outside the United States. Congress may soon direct the military to study the treatment.
WASHINGTON — The House is poised to approve mood-altering drugs to treat combat-related brain maladies, capping years of effort by an ex-Navy SEAL from Texas and a New York democratic socialist.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Morgan Luttrell (R-TX), Chairman of the Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, introduced the Modernizing VA Disability Benefits Questionnaires Act.
A lawmaker, and ex-Navy SEAL, is crediting psychedelic drug treatment for his , insisting it saved his life and his marriage and should be more broadly accessed by service members.
Joshua Gillihan loved to ride dirt bikes, play video games, and spend time with his friends and family.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Morgan Luttrell (R-TX) co-signed a letter with 75 of his House Republican colleagues to DHS Secretary Mayorkas and HHS Secretary Becerra following reports that HHS has been unable to contact 85,000 child migrants, leaving many to be forced into child labor.