(The Center Square) – Mental health care providers are rediscovering new uses for old medicines.
Recent findings demonstrating the efficacy of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, have led some lawmakers to reconsider their classification as drugs of abuse.
Among the drugs’ most stalwart supporters are military veterans who have seen psychedelics benefit otherwise intractable cases of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
Marine Corps veteran and firefighter Ryan Gardill, president of the Manheim Township Professional Firefighters Association and a peer support coordinator, offered his perspective at a meeting of the House Democratic policy committee. He said in his line of work, there are twice as many suicide deaths to line-of-duty deaths annually.
“You know, everyone that I’ve seen go through this, they’re experiencing the same problems,”
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