After receiving bipartisan support from representatives of the Connecticut state legislature, Governor Ned Lamont signed a tax bill that includes a pilot program that will provide psychedelic-assisted therapy, using MDMA and psilocybin, to qualifying veterans, retired first-responders, and frontline workers such as police and firefighters. Originally drafted as the House Bill 5396, the program is designed to give access to psychedelic medicines to a population deprived of options for mental health treatments, ahead of FDA approval.
The bill is the first in the nation to provide access to these substances, which are illegal federally, by citing the FDA’s Expanded Access Program. According to the FDA website, the EAP offers a “potential pathway” to patients with a serious disease or condition “to gain access to an investigational medical product… for treatment outside of clinical trials when no comparable or satisfactory alternative therapy options are available.”
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Connecticut to permit psychedelic-assisted therapy, using MDMA and psilocybin
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