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Senate health committee advances bill to speed access to two experimental PTSD, depression drugs
Summary
The Health and Human Services Committee voted to pass House Bill 382, which would ensure lysergic acid and psilocybin can be reclassified for medical use in Georgia automatically if and when the FDA approves them; the bill also includes pharmacy supervision updates.
Representative Ron Stevens presented House Bill 382 to the committee, saying the measure began as a pharmacy bill but now includes provisions in sections 2 and 3 that would make lysergic acid (an LSD derivative) and psilocybin available for specific medical uses once the FDA approves them. "Lysergic acid and psilocybin are both class 1 drugs," Stevens said, adding Emory University research on PTSD informed the change and that the Board…
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