The Heroic Hearts Project UK, in collaboration with the University of Gibraltar, is leading a groundbreaking study to explore how psilocybin—the active ingredient in magic mushrooms—could be used to treat gambling addiction in veterans. ReadWrite has been reporting on the rise in addiction, with one study revealing that 10% of young men in the United States exhibit behavior indicative of a gambling problem, compared to just 3% of the general population. Psychedelic therapy for veterans The project is offering a legal psychedelic (psilocybin) retreat in the Netherlands, exclusively designed for military veterans and emergency service workers.