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SHARE AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Legislature has approved a study that will look at using psilocybin as a treatment for veterans struggling with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Psilocybin is the active ingredient in so-called "magic mushrooms." This is the first of its kind study on the use of these psychedelics on veterans with PTSD. It will be 20 years since 9/11 this September and the impact of war rarely stays overseas. "We lost so far 114,000 veterans to suicide because of PTSD since 2001," said Texas Rep. Alex Dominguez, D-Brownsville. Dominguez says the current treatments for PTSD are...

Illustration by Texas Monthly; Getty On the day it opened in early May, Field Trip Health’s therapeutic facility in Houston’s uptown neighborhood looked a little like a high-end strip-mall spa. Dressed in a floral shirt, Matt Emmer, the company’s director of operations and business development, showed me the clinic’s amenities. He led me down a hallway, around a narrow Zen rock garden, past eight therapy rooms with white-leather zero-gravity chairs and headphones, and into a spacious, sunlight-filled gathering area outfitted with gray couches and a plush white carpet. A few light pink...

Some veterans who took psychedelic drugs after finding no relief from prescribed medications say it changed their lives. Paratroopers walk as they prepare equipment and load an aircraft at Fort Bragg, N.C., last year. (Spc. Hubert Delany III/U.S. Army via AP, File) (CN) — When Andrew Marr left the military in 2015, he no longer felt like the person he was before service. A former college athlete and self-described “warrior,” he suffered from a range of new health issues, including frequent panic attacks. Veterans Affairs doctors put him on more than a dozen medications. Marr said he saw...

Texas lawmakers consider studying the effects of psychedelics on veterans with PTSD Texas lawmakers consider studying effects of psychedelics on veterans with PTSD By Gray TV/KWTX | April 22, 2021 at 10:40 AM CDT - Updated April 22 at 10:42 AM KILLEEN, Texas (KWTX) - State Rep. Alex Dominguez, D-Brownsville, is pushing for Texas to be the first state to study the effects of certain psychedelic drugs on veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). House Bill 1802, heard in committee on Wednesday, would direct the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, together with Baylor Coll...

Download 7.97 MB A pioneering ACT medical program treating military veterans with chronic post traumatic stress disorder or depression is nationally expanding. Canberra psychiatrist Dr Alex YC Lim established the ReVive Ketamine Program as part of his work with the ZedThree Specialist Centre in Deakin. Over the past 15 months more than 80 patients have been treated with close to 1000 ketamine infusions. Ketamine has not yet been approved for clinical trials by the Therapeutic Goods Administration, so the existing ReVive Ketamine Program is almost exclusively funded by the Department of Veter...