This doctor prescribes ketamine to thousands online. It’s all legal.

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A federal waiver helped give rise to a new industry treating depression with the psychedelic drug ketamine by telemedicine. Now the controversial approach faces an uncertain future.

report improvement for these conditions, but that figure comes from a study where more than half of participants didn’t report any follow-up data.is a point of pride for Mindbloom. Dylan Beynon, Mindbloom’s chief executive

The company CEOs uniformly believe that telemedicine is here to stay but are preparing for the expiration of the federal waiver, including making plans to open physical clinics. Smith describes himself as a “person who gets obsessed with things.” He took up quilting after watching “Project Runway” and acquired five sewing machines. When he got into gardening, he threw himself into researching plants that could thrive in his completely shaded yard. He bought a fixer-upper house and did the electrical and plumbing work himself, he said. Ketamine is his latest fixation.

Smith estimates that about 5 percent of patients who come to him aren’t good candidates for ketamine therapy, and he declines to treat them. Occasionally, younger patients will ask for a prescription simply because they want to try the drug. Ketamine doesn’t carry the same risk of addiction or overdose as opioids, but side effects can range from unpleasant, disorienting sensations — what some might call a “bad trip” — to being temporarily immobilized.

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You are using 'experts' without quotes. Throw away your editors.

I can’t get past the paywall. Did it mention Ketamine is showing promising signs for people with severe depression.

This is the level of ‘jOuRnALiSM’ y’all do in the west😵‍💫

Ketamine by prescription is a horrible idea. I was given the drug recreationally in my 20s. It was terrifying experience, which fortunately led to my avoiding all psychoactive recreational drugs for keeps in a era when they were readily available.

Thank you to all the mother hens at WaPo

My body my choice, right?

Prescribing meds online is just wrong!

Wow

Prescribed drugs are a bit in a gray area, since these are legal... Heroin used to be legal too some time ago. There was even a casual cough syrups and sleeping remedies with heroin in it. Morphine was given like candy in WW1-2 era. Now, there are things like aderral and this.

I know someone who is doing this. Insane as she told me my chin was in my lap. Nuts, don't like it all. They inject her with K, she trips for an hour. Not covered by insurance. Costs $400 per session. Then asked me for money to fix her car? WTF

Ketamine was my drug of choice back in my party days. That being said... some laws need changing. No one should be able to get this legally.

I both suffer from major depression and taken ecstasy recreationally and it made me feel what I imagine normalcy feels like-- not having to swim in a pool full of wet cement with a 1000 lb weight on my back. Imagine trying to function like this 24/7.

It's always a balancing act between convenience and safety. Hopefully, we can find a way to keep both in check!

Used as a rape drug. What could possibly go wrong?

Says every woman on earth.

'too easy to get' It's my body. I should have the final say on what goes in it and nobody should have the right to tell me what I can or cannot put in it.

I am not saying it can't help some, but this online prescription thing is dangerous and it will turn into more addiction sooner than later. It's also mostly about the money.

Adventurous Dr.s for rich people have been prescribing vials of ketamine to self administer shots for years.I I've used similar troches/lozenges for RSD pain for a long time. Someone looking for a trip would likely need take them all at once. The dose is low.

My guy — May I ask (for a friend, that looks like me) if it’s the psychedelic type or dissociative type? 2. Calvin Kleins or CK’s as they are known does me wonders — What’s the science behind that?

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