Reason for Hope

At Reason for Hope we are dedicated to preventing deaths of despair by helping to develop and advocate for the policy and legal reforms needed to facilitate safe and affordable access to psychedelic medicine and assisted therapies. Our team, led by retired Marine three-star Lieutenant General Martin Steele, retired Army Brigadier General, and psychiatrist Stephen Xenakis, MD, Lynnette Averill, Ph.D., and Brett Waters, Esq., brings a strategic, pragmatic, and bipartisan approach to our work. Our work includes drafting legislation, preparing legal briefings and policy proposals, testifying in hearings, educating legislators and government officials, and building broad advocacy coalitions.