At first glance, it seems no substance better assuages the anxieties of our accelerationist era than ketamine. The dissociative drug\u2014a rapid-acting substance that increases the brain\u2019s neuroplasticity and has antidepressant effects\u2014slows time into a serene flow, offering a tranquil(ized) alternative to the doomscrolling status quo. That a common anesthetic used to sedate humans on operating tables, not to mention horses, has become a trendy mental health hack is an unexpected outcome, especially given how unsettling the deeper ends of a ketamine trip, also known as a K-hole, can be.<\/p>\n
Companies courting the $3.4 billion ketamine market tout the powerful drug as a way to heal our existential doldrums while also enhancing cognitive function. Social media marketing positions ketamine as a faster and more effective alternative to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At first glance, it seems no substance better assuages the anxieties of our accelerationist era than ketamine. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,102379,5175,7273,102377,137,34166,490,102375,102378,1314,1483,35817,102376,9294],"class_list":["post-152906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-businessweek","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-coronavirus","tag-dave-asprey","tag-health","tag-johnson-johnson","tag-medication","tag-mindbloom-inc","tag-pursuits","tag-social-media","tag-startups","tag-tablet","tag-telemedicine","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}