Psychedelic Treatments for Suicide, Addiction, Depression

IMPORTANT NOTE TO THE WHITE HOUSE: TreatNOW, Grunt Style, America’s Mighty Warriors, Project 22, HBOT 4 Heroes, the HOW Foundation, KOTERRA, the American College of Hyperbaric Medicine, IHMF, IHA, hundreds of other Foundations, and thousands of Veterans, researchers, physicians, and relatives of brain wounded TBI/PTSD/BLAST victims applaud any advance that will provide relief and healing to Invisibly Wounded service members and citizens.

We draw your attention to the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), in use worldwide for 14 FDA-approved Indications, and already approved for wound healing. Over 12,500 Veterans have already seen their lives dramatically improved through brain wound healing using HBOT. Over 180 TreatNOW Coalition clinics have been healing Veterans for two decades using protocols demonstrated to be safe and effective in 28 peer-reviewed clinical studies. The entire country of Israel, starting with the IDF over a decade ago, have been using HBOT safely and effectively to heal TBI/PTSD/Blast injuries.

The Important message: HBOT is ready, today. It is in use, safe, effective, proven, and hugely economical over the current standards of care. Over 161,000 Veteran suicides continue the upward trend in relying on “more research” while DoD and the VA spend over $357 Billion over ten years on Suicide Prevention, the “#1 Clinical Priority.”

HBOT is available today, with essentially zero risk, lacking only an Executive Order, similar to today’s Order, demanding expanded use of funds to treat TBI/PTSD while continuing with all other research and treatments. HBOT is already on-label for wound healing and awaits FDA and CMS recognition of the validity of the research and evidence. An explanation of the delay in science and policy is found at The Obvious Question.]

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President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an Executive Order aimed at encouraging expanded research into psychedelic drugs, part of a broader push to explore emerging mental health treatments. [NOTE: TBI/PTSD cause physiological damage that can cause mental health problems. The Mechanisms of Action during HBOT work on healing the wound and nearly eliminating the mental health symptoms.]

A Fact Sheet accompanying the signing, “Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness,” enumerates several issues:

• accelerate access to treatments for patients with serious mental illness, reaffirming his commitment to advancing solutions that provide hope to Americans with devastating, complex, and treatment-resistant conditions.
• directs the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner to provide Commissioner’s National Priority Vouchers to appropriate psychedelic drugs that have received Breakthrough Therapy designations for treating serious mental illnesses, and that meet the criteria of the National Priority Voucher Program.
• The Order further directs the FDA and the Drug Enforcement Agency to establish a pathway for eligible patients to access investigational psychedelic drugs, including ibogaine compounds, that are under FDA review and that have met basic safety requirements under President Trump’s landmark Right to Try Act.
• The Order requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to allocate $50 million through the Advanced Research Projects for Health (ARPA-H) program to match investments made by state governments to advance research into psychedelic programs for populations with serious mental illness.
• The Order requires HHS and the FDA to collaborate with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the private sector to increase clinical trial participation and evidence generation surrounding experimental psychedelic therapies.
• The Order directs the Attorney General to initiate reviews of relevant products upon successful completion of their Phase 3 clinical trials so that they can be rescheduled as soon as possible upon FDA approval, where appropriate.

President Trump is working to bring about new options for patients whose conditions have not responded to existing treatments.

• Today, over 14 million American adults have a serious mental illness— a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder that substantially interferes with a person’s life and ability to function. 8 million of these are on prescription medication for their conditions.
• America’s brave veterans often suffer in greater measure from the tragedy of suicide.
• For over 20 years, there have been more than 6,000 veteran suicides per year.
• The suicide rate among veterans is more than twice as high as that of the non-veteran adult population.
• The FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to some psychedelic drugs that have shown preliminary clinical evidence of substantial improvement over other current therapies.

DELIVERING RESULTS FOR PATIENTS: President Trump has long been committed to accelerating medical treatment development and to ensure Americans and our veterans struggling with complex, hard to treat, and even incurable diseases and mental illnesses are able to access the care they need.

• In President Trump’s first term, he worked to pass and sign into law the landmark Right to Try Act, giving terminally ill patients a pathway to access potentially lifesaving treatments under FDA review.
• Also during his first term, President Trump signed an Executive Order to ensure all veterans have seamless access to high-quality mental healthcare and suicide prevention resources as they transition from uniformed service to civilian life, especially during the critical first year in which the suicide rates are known to be higher.

In this second term he can cut the Gordian knot of bureaucratic, cultural, and self-serving politics that prevent use of a proven treatment. Approve HBOT for immediate use, Mr. President. No Veteran has ever died using HBOT. It is safe, effective, and ready for immediate use. Additionally, Return on Investment has already been shown to cuts costs of NOT treating brain wounds by over 90%. Better, Veterans, their families, the services, and society’s Quality of Life are vastly improved. TreatNOW.

HBOT Heals Brains, Stops Suicides, Restores Lives.

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The TreatNOW pro bono Mission is ending service member suicides. Along the way, we have learned that we can end suicidal ideation, help end symptoms of PTSD, get patients off most of their drugs, and heal brain wounds to end the effects of Concussion, BLAST injury, mild TBI, Persistent Post Concussive Syndrome, and polytrauma from Operator Syndrome, AHI, and Burn Pits. No Veteran or civilian has ever been killed or hurt while undergoing HBOT treatment for TBI/PTSD.

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