{"id":144668,"date":"2025-05-30T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/144668\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T17:32:09","slug":"what-is-ketamine-what-does-it-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/144668\/","title":{"rendered":"What is ketamine? What does it do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elon Musk officially departs Trump administration<\/p>\n

Elon Musk is leaving the Trump administration as his allotted 130 days as a “special government employee” ends.<\/p>\n

New details about Elon Musk<\/a>‘s relationship with ketamine have emerged a few days after the tech entrepreneur announced his departure from the White House.<\/a><\/p>\n

Although Musk had previously mentioned using a “small amount once every other week,” the billionaire X owner may have been using ketamine frequently enough on President Donald Trump<\/a>‘s campaign trail for the drug to start causing some health issues, according to reporting from The New York Times.<\/a><\/p>\n

Musk previously mentioned using the drug as a medical prescription to treat depression in an hour-long interview with former CNN host Don Lemon in March 2024<\/a>, where he also denied abusing the drug.<\/p>\n

Musk is not the only celebrity who has used ketamine<\/a>. The late actor Matthew Perry was using ketamine under the care of a physician for the treatment of depression, although the levels of ketamine in his system at the time of his death in October 2023 weren\u2019t related to his last infusion. Other celebrities who have used the substance include Chrissy Teigen and Sharon Osborne<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s what to know about ketamine.<\/p>\n

What is ketamine?<\/p>\n

Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic that has some hallucinogenic effects, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.<\/p>\n

It binds to the NDMA receptors and is essentially a \u201cstop\u201d signal. It starts to interfere with the connection between your brain and your body.<\/p>\n

The effects are dose-dependent, but it generally leads to a \u201cdisconnected\u201d feeling from you, your person \u2013 and your body. Symptoms range from unconsciousness (like when used in general anesthesia) to an \u201cout of body\u201d experience or hallucinations.<\/p>\n

Ketamine therapy session <\/strong>on the ‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.’ What is that?<\/a><\/p>\n

Is ketamine legal?<\/p>\n

Ketamine is a legal medication and is used as an injectable, short-acting anesthetic for use in humans and animals, the DEA says.<\/p>\n

A ketamine derivative, esketamine under the brand name Spravato, is FDA-approved as a nasal spray to treat depression in adults, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.<\/a> Ketamine has also been used off-label in dozens of clinics across the U.S. to treat other mental health conditions, such as anxiety, in combination with talk therapy.<\/p>\n

However, most of the ketamine distributed in the U.S. is done so illegally, per the DEA. It’s often diverted or stolen from legitimate sources, like veterinary clinics, or smuggled into the country.<\/p>\n

Ketamine is classified as a Schedule III drug by the agency, which denotes substances “with a moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence.”<\/p>\n

In case you missed: <\/strong>Sharon Osbourne says ketamine helped her depression. Is this the next big trend?<\/a><\/p>\n

Short- and long-term effects of ketamine<\/p>\n

Short-term side effects of ketamine use may include headache, dizziness, sleepiness, feeling strange or \u201cloopy,\u201d difficulty speaking, numbness, blurred vision or nausea, according to NIDA.<\/p>\n

Long-term, heavy ketamine use is associated with memory problems, depression and anxiety. The drug may also cause gastrointestinal problems, abdominal pain popularly known as \u201ck-cramps\u201d and uropathy, which is a blockage in the urinary tract that can lead to infections, or UTIs.<\/p>\n

Contributing: Delaney Nothaft and Emily DeLetter, USA TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk officially departs Trump administration Elon Musk is leaving the Trump administration as his allotted 130 days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[8521,6580,5784,5176,4021,4080,5787,1594,1322,5483,32,6579,26848,535,22082,8866,295,7964,77,1203,105,3714,3462,5791,4326,5331,8865,6584,9641,12354,12,5179,6591,6886,18446,18454,7675,41471,16888,15822,1757,1470,1017,6587,5181,16,15,7674,7681,11729],"class_list":{"0":"post-144668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-abuse","9":"tag-administration","10":"tag-affiliate","11":"tag-and","12":"tag-arts","13":"tag-celebrities","14":"tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","15":"tag-cnn","16":"tag-company","17":"tag-donald","18":"tag-donald-trump","19":"tag-drug","20":"tag-drug-enforcement-administration","21":"tag-drugs","22":"tag-drugs-u0026-medications","23":"tag-elon","24":"tag-elon-musk","25":"tag-enforcement","26":"tag-entertainment","27":"tag-food","28":"tag-health","29":"tag-house","30":"tag-local","31":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","32":"tag-medication","33":"tag-medications","34":"tag-musk","35":"tag-negative","36":"tag-new","37":"tag-new-york-times-company","38":"tag-news","39":"tag-overall","40":"tag-overall-negative","41":"tag-presidential","42":"tag-recreational","43":"tag-recreational-drugs","44":"tag-residence","45":"tag-substance","46":"tag-substance-abuse","47":"tag-times","48":"tag-trump","49":"tag-twitter","50":"tag-u-s","51":"tag-u-s-food-and-drug-administration","52":"tag-u0026","53":"tag-uk","54":"tag-united-kingdom","55":"tag-white","56":"tag-white-house-presidential-residence","57":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}