“I think we’re making massive progress in how we diagnose things, but also how we do new treatments.”
By Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix
Military veterans with PTSD and other mental health conditions may soon be able to use psychedelic drugs to aid in their treatment.
In April, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing health regulators to speed up reviews of psychedelic treatments and allocate more funding for research into their use.
“I think we’re making massive progress in how we diagnose things, but also how we do new treatments, which in the past was more of a wait-and-see approach, and now we’re being more cutting-edge,” U.S. Secretary of Veteran Affairs Doug Collins said Wednesday.
Collins spoke with reporters after attending a roundtable discussion with military veterans at American Legion Post 273 in Pinellas County with Republican U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna.
The VA is involved in 20 active clinical trials focused on psychedelic therapies.
The first clinical study of psilocybin-assisted therapy in veterans with PTSD was released this week. It found that nine out of 12 veterans no longer met diagnostic criteria for PTSD one month after treatment. Psilocybin is a psychedelic compound found in mushrooms.
The findings revealed “that PAT
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