Research and Implementation of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy in the Veterans Health Administration

Aaron S Wolfgang¹, Vetisha L McClair¹, Paula P Schnurr¹+13

• ¹Directorate of Behavioral Health, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md. (Wolfgang); Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Md. (Wolfgang, Benedek); Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. (Wolfgang, Wiechers); Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and Development, Washington, D.C. (McClair, Smyth, Tenhula); Department of Veterans Affairs, Executive Division, National Center for PTSD, White River Junction, Vt. (Schnurr, Holtzheimer); Department of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, N.H. (Schnurr, Holtzheimer); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco. (Woolley, Wiechers); San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco. (Woolley); Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Ore. (Stauffer); Department of Mental Health; VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, Ore. (Stauffer); Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockville, Md. (Wolf); Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Washington, D.C. (States); Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston (Bradley); VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston (Bradley); Department of Veterans Affairs, Pharmacy Benefits Management Service, Washington, D.C. (Fuller); Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (Fuller); Department of Veterans Affairs, Northeast Program Evaluation Center, Office of Mental Health, Washington, D.C. (Hermes); Veterans Health Administration Office of Mental Health, Washington, D.C. (Wiechers).