{"id":30064,"date":"2025-09-19T02:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/30064\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T02:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:43:05","slug":"does-online-ketamine-therapy-work-safety-questions-about-mental-health-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/30064\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Online Ketamine Therapy Work? Safety Questions About Mental Health Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">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<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[24300,15704,158,24298,103,61,60,14174,371,24296,24299,58,1884,8116,24297,12739],"class_list":["post-30064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-businessweek","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-coronavirus","tag-dave-asprey","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","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\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}