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Jack Bergman: “We're not taking the missions serious enough and advancing…”

Featuring: Jack Bergman, Republican | U.S. House Michigan, 1st Congressional District

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A Congressional Advocate: Expanding Access to Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies w/ Rep. Jack Bergman

Published | Video Starts at 02:45

… but the establishment of ways of doing things in the medical community, in the research community, in the governmental bureaucratic community that I saw when I got here. I said, We're not taking the missions serious enough and advancing the research necessary to make the protocol change to do all of that, that's going to result in better mental health, lower suicide rate. And if it'll work, if you do it, you focus on the military. It doesn't make any difference if you aren't in the military. (02:45–03:03)

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Asserts that current efforts are insufficient in advancing research for mental health improvements and suicide rate reduction.

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