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A group of Republican and Democrat congressional lawmakers has come together to ask the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to create a plan to implement therapy using MDMA for veterans should it be approved by the FDA. The bipartisan group of nine U.S.
Biden should loosen restrictions to allow veterans to use psychedelics as they recover from trauma experienced in combat, say lawmakers.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Morgan Luttrell (R-TX), Chairman of the Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs (DAMA) Subcommittee on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, introduced the Veterans Claims Quality Improvement Act of 2024.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Morgan Luttrell (R-TX), Chairman of the Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs (DAMA), today introduced the Veterans Compensation Cost of Living Adjustment Act of 2024.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has agreed to review a new drug application for MDMA — commonly known as ecstasy — to be developed for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder in a supervised clinical setting.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Morgan Luttrell (R-TX) led a letter to Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough, along with 16 of his Texas colleagues, addressing significant delays in response time to claims inquiries due to depleted staff levels, specifically at the Houston Regional office, which is responsible for 20 Congres
As a former Navy SEAL and Republican congressman from Texas, Rep. Morgan Luttrell might not necessarily seem like someone you’d expect to become a leader on federal psychedelics policy reform. And he might not have, either—if it weren’t for his own experience with plant-based medicine.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Morgan Luttrell (R-TX) applauded the Department of Veterans Affairs’ decision to request applications for proposals to research the use of psychedelic therapies to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injuries (TBI), and other combat-related injuries.
WASHINGTON — Sixty percent of veterans who die from suicide each year had no recent engagement with health care services at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Lawmakers frustrated with federal officials’ lack of progress in preventing veterans suicides suggested on Tuesday that more of the $16 billion allotted for those outreach efforts be given to