Experts have sounded the alarm about potentially flawed research touting ketamine as a wonder drug for depression – after X boss Elon Musk admitted to taking it ‘every other week’.
Musk, 52, appeared in a heated interview last week with former CNN anchor Don Lemon, where the two butted heads on several topics, including Musk’s use ofthe drug – which has psychoactive effects.
Though Musk said it was ‘pretty private to ask somebody about a medical prescription,’ he has previously
Matthew Perry had talked about getting ketamine infusions in rehab and wrote that it was ‘not for me’ in his memoir before his tragic death.
In Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, the late Friends actor, who passed away at age 54, had opened up about undergoing ketamine infusion therapy when he was in rehab in Switzerland.
He said that it often made him feel like he was taking ‘a giant exhale’ but he would also sometimes feel like
Experts have raised the alarm over a little-known side effect of ketamine, a popular drug among students.
Ketamine, also used as a horse tranquiliser and sold for as little as £3 per dose, can inflame the bladder and leave users unable to urinate. Its effects can mimic that of cystitis, an agonising UTI.
Academics labelled it a ‘poorly understood’ phenomenon, given it has only been documented in a handful of medical reports.
But up to a quarter of patients who
When relationships hit a rocky patch, couples usually try to fix things by taking a break, going on more date nights or even attending therapy.
But lovers are increasingly turning to ketamine — more famous for being a party drug than a love potion — to bring themselves closer together.
The powerful sedative is a Schedule III controlled substance in the US, but a legal loophole allows for it to be used off-label as long as a licensed medic is
Einer Studie zufolge könnte Alkoholikern niedrige Dosen von Ketamin verabreicht werden, um nüchtern zu bleiben.
Experten der University of Exeter testeten die Auswirkungen der illegalen Partydroge an 96 Süchtigen, die das Äquivalent von 50 Pints Bier pro Woche tranken.
Sie wurden alle in vier separate Gruppen aufgeteilt, um die Auswirkungen der Einnahme von Ketamin zusätzlich zur routinemäßigen Gesprächstherapie zu testen.
Freiwillige, denen Ketamin verabreicht wurde, waren zweieinhalb Mal wahrscheinlicher, sechs Monate später noch nüchtern zu sein, im Vergleich zu Süchtigen,
A spiking victim has been pictured unconscious in a hospital bed after being injected with what is believed to be Ketamine in a nightclub as the ‘Girls’ Night In’ campaign gathers pace.
Students are planning to boycott nightclubs next week as part of nationwide protests, with more than 30 universities boycotting clubs in a bid to force venues to increase safety measures.
Following reports of spiking by needles in Nottingham, a petition calling for it to be a ‘legal requirement’
