MedPage Today's weekly feature, "What We Heard This Week," captured a striking plea from Marine Corps veteran Eric Jansen. Speaking as a representative of the Balanced Veterans Network, Jansen urged the FDA to consider psychedelic drugs for severe mental health conditions.
"No veteran should need a passport to find hope," Jansen said, according to the report. His comment suggests that veterans facing mental health challenges should not have to seek treatment or relief outside the United States, and it frames psychedelic therapies as a domestic policy question rather than only a clinical one.
The quote underscores the growing pressure from veteran advocates for regulators to take psychedelic treatments seriously. MedPage Today's weekly roundup platformed that call, giving it visibility in the medical community, though the report itself does not detail specific policy proposals or clinical evidence.