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Healing Our Heroes: A Dinner Honoring Veterans and First Responders

Itzel Barakat, Justin LaPree

Join us on the Thursday evening of the conference to honor Veterans, First Responders, and their families who support psychedelic medicine. These communities are facing a mental health crisis, with soaring rates of PTSD, depression, and addiction. Providing mental health care to those who serve is our urgent moral obligation, but existing tools and resources have proved expensive and inadequate.

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Healing Our Heroes: A Dinner Honoring Veterans and First Responders

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