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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 not doing enough. The two medications that are currently being prescribed to them are psychotropics prozac and zoloft and they are increasingly being shown to be ineffective for these veterans suffering from PTSD, so we need a fresh look. We need a big idea to solve this big problem, Dominguez said.