A bipartisan pair of members of Congress are continuing their push to expedite the availability of psychedelic therapies that they believe can aid military veterans and other people who are struggling with mental health conditions.
Reps. Jack Bergman (R-MI) and Lou Correa (D-CA), co-chairs of the Congressional Psychedelics Advancing Therapies Caucus, appeared together on CNN last week.
Correa said therapy with substances like psilocybin, ibogaine and MDMA “works,” citing high suicide rates among veterans and arguing that psychedelics can be part of the solution.
“You have people in my community that have actually been alcoholics [that] have been cured, drug addicts that have been cured, people with mental illnesses that are cured,” he said. “This promises to be that magic pill, that magic cure that we’ve been waiting for.”
Bergman cited his own experience as a Vietnam combat veteran, saying he’s “seen so many of my brothers and sisters who came back in Vietnam who never assimilated back into society, a lot of times due to post-traumatic stress.”
“We’ve been doing things the same way forever in mental health and expecting different results,” he said. “Now it’s the right thing for Congress to do, to get the money, direct the
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