Politico August 5, 2024
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MDMA GETS A BIPARTISAN BOOST — A bipartisan group in Congress, led by an unlikely front man, Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.), a three-star retired Marine Corps general, is waging a psychedelic drug pressure campaign on the Food and Drug Administration, POLITICO’s Erin Schumaker reports.
Bergman’s ask to the FDA: Consider the science. Then approve Lykos Therapeutics’ application for MDMA — also known as ecstasy — with talk therapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
“Every day that goes by that research isn’t being done, that’s more lives being lost, primarily to suicide,” Bergman, who, with Democrat Lou Correa of California, co-chairs the Psychedelics Advancing Therapies Caucus, told Erin. “A lot of those veterans are on a dark path.”
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