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Psychedelic Treatments for Suicide, Addiction, Depression

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.”

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Nebraska Resolution Supports Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE ONE HUNDRED NINTH LEGISLATURE OF NEBRASKA, SECOND SESSION: That theRead more

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The VA’s Pinocchio Problem

A major newspaper coined a new category for repetitive falsehoods, the “Bottomless Pinocchio.” These are falsehoods repeated at least twenty times. We are adding to the brain-wounded totals. We can only hope that we stay in the hundreds, not the tens and hundreds of thousands over the last twenty years. But in what is surely a first, DOD reported in less than two weeks that of at least 140 of the 290 U.S. troops reported wounded last month, 140 have been officially classified as TBI-related.

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Military Encounters lead to TBI

Three and a half weeks into the Iran Encounter, ABC reported over 200 US casualties. 140 were reported to be suffering from what used to be called “the invisible wounds of war,” TBI and PTSD.

Authorizing HBOT puts the US on an equal footing with Israel. It would start an immediate cost savings, rebuild force resilience, improve quality of life for hundreds of thousands of Veterans and their families, and is in keeping with the basic precepts of MAHA and their New Vision of Transformative Medical Care.

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Opening Possibilities to Brain-Wounded Veterans

It’s hard not to be cynical in the face of a medical culture that is slowly changing over time. That’s inevitable as more worldwide science shows how effective Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is in reversing suicidal ideation and in helping heal those brain wounds which keep announcing their presence with months and years of symptoms that degrade lives and families.

Helping in that eventuality are such groups as the Heritage Foundation and their growing interest in alternative, innovative technologies like Hyperbaric medicine and photobiomodulation. Equally interesting are Olympic athletes like Mikaela Shiffrin and Michael Phelps and hundreds of professional athletes and teams using Hyperbaric therapy for healing, recuperation, peak performance, and concussion recovery.

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Concussions, NFL Playoffs, Veterans, and Science

BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT: The NFL, DoD and the VA should immediately treat brain-wounded Service Members and concussed athletes with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT). We can return players to action and stop the suicide and opioid overdose epidemics and bolster readiness imperiled by untreated brain wounds. The evidence of safety and efficacy is backed by over 28 clinical trials. Oversight of Veteran suicides seems to be left to family members, friends, some not-for-profits, and the media since Congress, the VA and DoD allow the carnage to continue.

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Thank You for Your Sacrifice

What do the pictures have in common? The faces of brain injured Warriors and athletes who sacrificed, not just served. And too many dead with undiagnosed brain wounds.

We’re twenty-four years out since 9/11. On the order of fifteen thousand Americans — roughly seven thousand U.S. service members and about eight thousand U.S. military contractors — have been killed in the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and related theaters, according to the best available research. Ten times that number are dead from suicide over the same period, and 877,000+ Veterans and millions of citizens suffer with untreated brain wounds.

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Veterans Brain Wound Awakening: Part 2

Over 66,000 Veteran Service Organizations have sprung up since 9/11. No one can doubt the overwhelming resilience of most Veterans and the goodwill shown by foundations and volunteers, and billions of dollars of donated monies spent to restore normalcy to Veterans injured in war. No doubt the intentions of investigators on the DOD Suicide Prevention and Response Independent Review Committee meant well with their Report that encouraged “caring contacts” but said not a word about healing brain wounds. The entire tenor of the Report ignores any discussion about the physiological underpinnings of suicidal ideation. Suicide continues to be viewed as a problem fixable by more human contact, mental health programs, and psychiatric and drug interventions, not as a physiological condition brought about in any way by an untreated brain wound.

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MEMORIAL DAY 2025

Memorial Day is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country. What can aid more to assure this result than by cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead who made their breasts [and their brains] a barricade between our country and its foes? Read More
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Rx Drugs and Suicidal Ideation

Veterans with brain wounds will talk about how much relief they get from Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, particularly the ability to get off the drugs that seemingly made them worse, not better. This applies directly to the anti-depression drugs prescribed throughout the VA. But there are unintended consequences of the prescribing behavior in the VA that go unreported, even to the Veterans.

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