For decades, the United States has lived with a quiet, persistent crisis. It doesn’t dominate headlines the way wars or elections do, but it touches nearly every family in some way. Mental health in this country has been deteriorating in plain sight, with rising rates of depression, addiction, and suicide, and with far too few meaningful breakthroughs to meet the moment.

Nowhere is that failure more evident than among those who have worn the uniform.

Veterans return home carrying burdens that most Americans will never fully understand. Post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injuries, and the invisible weight of combat have taken a devastating toll. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, an average of 17 veterans die by suicide every day. That number has become so familiar that it risks losing its impact. It shouldn’t.

For many of these men and women, the existing system has simply not worked. Years of therapy. Rotating prescriptions. Combinations of antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications that often blunt symptoms without restoring lives. Stress, not only for them, but also for their loved ones and family caregivers. In too many cases, the result is exhaustion rather than recovery.

That reality is driving a quiet but telling trend. Increasingly, American veterans are leaving the country in search of something better. In a CBS report, a group of U.S. veterans traveled to Mexico for a week-long psychedelic retreat after exhausting conventional treatments at home. They were not thrill-seekers. They were not looking for shortcuts. They were looking for relief after years of failed options.

Nearly a year later, most of those veterans described the experience as life-changing. Some reported that the suicidal thoughts that once dominated their lives had........

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