She Hoped Ketamine Would Rewire Her Brain. She Didn’t Live to See It Work.

MichaelSavage.com – She Hoped Ketamine Would Rewire Her Brain. She Didn’t Live to See It Work.

Tricia Anne Dewey struggled for many years with domestic violence and a subsequent painkiller addiction. As she emerged from that harrowing period by age 41, the Pound Ridge, N.Y., paralegal thought she’d found a way to repair some of the damage—a drug that internet ads and marketing on social media said would rewire her brain.…

She Hoped Ketamine Would Rewire Her Brain. She Didn’t Live to See It Work.

(WSJ) – The psychedelic-like anesthetic is at the heart of a booming online industry that promises relief from depression but has also led to harm Just a few years ago, ketamine had mostly a dual existence: as an anesthetic to sedate patients in operating rooms and as a street drug known as “K” that can deliver out-of-body experiences.  That changed after 2019, when the FDA approved a drug for treatment-resistant depression that shares some chem…