Reason for Hope

Reason for Hope is a nonprofit dedicated to preventing deaths of despair by advancing mental healthcare policy through research, education, and advocacy. Led by retired USMC Lieutenant General Martin R. Steele and Chief Science Officer Lynnette Astrid Averill, PhD, the organization founded and leads the Veteran Mental Health Leadership Coalition, a coalition of veteran and mental-health organizations. Reason for Hope has submitted formal comments to the FDA on psychedelic drug guidance, supported the Breakthrough Therapies Act and the Freedom to Heal Act in Congress, and was central to Texas allocating $50 million for ibogaine clinical trial development. The organization is a policy and advocacy body; it does not provide or administer ibogaine treatment.