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WASHINGTON – Congressman Morgan Luttrell (R-TX), Chairman of Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, was named by Speaker Kevin McCarthy as a conferee to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Committee.
To begin to appreciate the marrow and character of which Morgan Luttrell is made, it's helpful to know about the chores that he and his identical twin brother performed as teens on the family’s quarter horse ranch near Houston.
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 — Congressman Morgan Luttrell (R-TX), a member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), today voted in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24). The legislation passed the House by a vote of 218-209.
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.
The number of military veterans in Congress has dwindled over the past decade, but one group of former commandos has bucked that trend.
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) has announced the formation of the Quality of Life (QoL) Panel which will focus on issues impacting the quality of life for service members and their families.