Massachusetts congressman Seth Moulton wants to bring mental health into the 2020 conversation
low poll numbers, Moulton’s campaign remains undaunted. The congressman has pushed things before — running and winning an uphill battle for Congress; successfully recruiting veterans to run for office in the Democratic landslide in the 2018 midterms; unsuccessfully challenging Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership early this year.caught up with him to talk about his signature issue, the threat of war in the Persian Gulf, and why the VA isn’t embracing cannabis treatments for PTSD.
PTSD was only identified as a condition relatively recently. But throughout our history, damaged people like Grant were self-medicating with alcohol. We just didn’t know. The science wasn’t there. Moulton sorts donated clothes at a Veterans Transition home in Manchester, New Hampshire. Photo credit: CJ Gunther/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockYeah, yeah he did. And to his credit, he at least asked for help, but he wasn’t getting the help that he needed.It’s just the conservative nature in Washington. I just spoke to the VA committee chairman literally about 20 minutes ago about cannabis, but they won’t even study it.
Well, that’s right, and when veterans are homeless we have to get them off the streets. But where I try to focus my effort is not on the homelessness itself, as important as that is. It’s really preventing homelessness, and I think that you really have to start with the transition the vets make from the military back into civilian lives.
I think it’s incredibly dangerous, and there’s no question in my mind that [Secretary of State] Mike Pompeo and [National Security Adviser] John Bolton and some other hawks of the administration are trying to get us into the war. They started the war I served in with the help of another person who had no credibility to keep us out of war, because he dodged serving in the war himself. And Trump dodged it more severely than Bush.
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