Provision directing the Pentagon to study the use of psychedelics to treat combat injuries is tucked into pending defense bill.
The duo has fought to get Congress to direct Pentagon studies of psilocybin to treat traumatic brain injury and PTSD, which have become increasingly common in the military. The proposal is tucked into the $886 billion defense bill the House began debating Thursday.
“The stigma around these substances is very real,” said Ocasio-Cortez. But they hold “enormous therapeutic potential.”“To knowingly refuse to enable research that could end millions of people’s suffering is simply wrong,” she said. “If we prohibit these promising drugs from being studied, we are being led by stigma, not science. And it is our veterans who will pay the price.”
Conservative Republicans have demanded a number of contentious provisions in the defense bill that threatened delay. That included directives to ban abortions through the military health care system; end “diversity, equity and inclusion” training; and reverse President Joe Biden’s decision to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine.Veterans groups have lauded the bill as a way to stanch a suicide epidemic among those in uniform or retired from active duty.
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