Veterans with severe PTSD and depression are increasingly traveling overseas for treatments they cannot legally access in the United States.

After exhausting medications and conventional treatments, many are traveling to clinics in countries like Mexico to pursue psychedelic-assisted treatments they believe may succeed where other options have failed. Others are seeking underground providers outside any regulated medical system.

That should concern everyone—not because these treatments are necessarily unsafe, but because veterans are being pushed outside the safeguards of the American healthcare system to access them.

If promising medicines exist, the United States has a responsibility to study them rigorously and, if they prove safe and effective, make them available through a regulated system here at home.

The United States has long maintained the world's highest standards for medical oversight. Treatments approved here must pass rigorous evaluations for safety and effectiveness before becoming available to patients. But today, too many veterans have nowhere safe to turn.

Seventeen veterans die by suicide each day in the United States. Many more live with PTSD and depression that existing treatments fail to adequately address.

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