GOP Senator To File Bill Promoting Psychedelics Research And Treatment For Veterans

GOP Senator To File Bill Promoting Psychedelics Research And Treatment For Veterans

A new Senate bill is being filed that would promote research into the therapeutic potential psychedelics, aiming to create a new office in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that would advance the development innovative treatments for serious mental health conditions and assist in reviewing the scheduling status of drugs like psilocybin, ibogaine and MDMA. The legislation—titled the “Veterans Health Administration Novel Therapeutics Prepare…

New Federal Bill Aims to Establish VA Office of Novel Therapeutics

Amid a burgeoning mental health crisis among the nation’s veterans, federal lawmakers and prominent psychedelic advocates alike are escalating a bipartisan push to integrate emerging, once-taboo treatments into the country’s largest integrated healthcare system.  This week, Sen. Tim Sheehy, (R-Montana), a former Navy SEAL, is set to introduce the “Veterans Health Administration Novel Therapeutics Preparedness Act,” a sweeping piece of legislatio…