27 Oct Medicine or Misuse? Why Ketamine Rehab Matters as Ketamine Therapy Goes Mainstream
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Ten years ago, most people only heard about ketamine as an anesthetic or a club drug. Today, it is advertised by wellness clinics, discussed on podcasts, and prescribed through telehealth services. Ketamine-based treatments have offered real hope to some people living with severe depression, and that progress deserves recognition.
But the growing visibility of ketamine has also blurred an important line. When ketamine is described as "medicine," some people assume any use is safe, including use outside of a clinic, without monitoring, or in doses and frequencies no clinician would recommend.