You’re sitting in a doctor’s chair, surrounded by nurses. They hook you up to an IV and give you eye shades and headphones. A heart monitor is strapped to your chest. The music is chosen specifically for the experience: the sounds of running water or rhythmic drumming beats composed by well-known trance DJs. You barely feel the needle go in and then, suddenly, the drug is coursing through your veins, rewiring your brain, diverting your neuropathways away from the rut carved by years of depression, anxiety or compulsion. Practitioners pop in and out to check on you during the 50-minute procedure, raising or lowering your dose as appropriate.
That’s the way ketamine therapy is supposed to work, at least at L.A.’s top-tier ketamine clinics.
But Matthew Perry obviously had a very different experience.
The 54-year-old former Friends star, who drowned in his hot tub at...
That’s the way ketamine therapy is supposed to work, at least at L.A.’s top-tier ketamine clinics.
But Matthew Perry obviously had a very different experience.
The 54-year-old former Friends star, who drowned in his hot tub at...
- 12/20/2023
- by Jason McGahan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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