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Oct 30, 2024
Reason for Hope and VMHLC Provide Comments to Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA on Advancing Treatment for PTSD
Following the September 6, 2024 public meeting hosted by the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA in which agency officials joined...


Oct 9, 2024
Reason for Hope and VMHLC brief the Congressional For Country Caucus on Importance of Breakthrough Therapies Act
Reason for Hope and VMHLC offered a briefing to the U.S. House of Representatives For Country Caucus to highlight the challenges to...


Aug 3, 2024
Reason for Hope and VMHLC join other veterans groups in letter to Biden Administration in support of FDA approval for MDMA-AT for PTSD.
Reason for Hope and VMHLC joined twelve other veteran service organizations and veterans groups in a letter to the Biden Administration...


Aug 1, 2024
Reason for Hope provides comments on 21st Century Cures Act and Cures 2.0
Reason for Hope has submitted a response to a request for comments issued by U.S. Representatives DeGette and Bucshon on efforts to...


Mar 13, 2024
Reason for Hope Hosts Briefing on Breakthrough Therapies Act
Reason for Hope and the Veteran Mental Health Leadership Coalition (VMHLC) – in coordination with Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Sen. Rand...


Nov 14, 2023
Reason for Hope and VMHLC testify before House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on the potential of emerging therapies for mental health and suicide prevention
"Hopefully, today’s hearing is the first step in the right direction of a major paradigm shift. There is an urgent need to develop novel...

Aug 24, 2023
Reason for Hope, et al. Provide Comments on FDA Draft Guidance for Clinical Investigation of Psychedelic Drugs
Reason for Hope, The Veteran Mental Health Leadership Coalition, BrainFutures, and the additional cosigners noted below provided comments...


Jun 13, 2023
Reason for Hope, VMHLC brief Congressional Caucus on Breakthrough Therapies Act
Reason for Hope and Veteran Mental Health Leadership Coalition briefed the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus on the importance of the...


Mar 8, 2023
Reason for Hope Issues Letter of Support for Breakthrough Therapies Act
Reason for Hope has issued a letter in support of the Breakthrough Therapies Act, bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senators...


Feb 15, 2023
Reason for Hope and VMHLC File Amicus Brief to Support Rescheduling of Psilocybin
Reason for Hope and Veteran Mental Health Leadership Coalition have filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth...


Sep 27, 2022
Reason for Hope and VMHLC Offer Testimony to House Veterans' Affairs Committee
Reason for Hope and VMHLC offered comments to the U.S. House Veterans' Affairs Committee encouraging the VA to establish its own...
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