Podcasts about ketamine infusion therapy

In this episode of The Psychedelic Podcast, Paul F. Austin welcomes Sam Mandel, co-founder and CEO of Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles (KCLA). Find full show notes and links here: https://thethirdwave.co/podcast/episode-301-sam-mandel/?ref=278 Sam shares his journey co-founding KCLA with his father in 2014, pioneering ketamine infusion therapy when few were exploring its potential for mental health. From humble beginnings in a storage closet to becoming a leading mental health center with over 30,000 infusions administered, Sam discusses the challenges and triumphs of building a patient-centric practice. He explains the science behind ketamine's effectiveness compared to alternatives like Spravato, highlights the importance of individualized treatment, and offers a passionate critique of the current mental healthcare system while envisioning what meaningful reform could look like. Co-founder & CEO of Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles (KCLA), Sam Mandel has channeled his lifelong passion for healthcare advocacy into transforming mental health care. From volunteering at a teen-to-teen suicide prevention hotline at twelve to pioneering one of the foremost Ketamine Infusion Therapy clinics in 2014 alongside his father, Dr. Steven L. Mandel, Sam has been featured in Entrepreneur's Top 10 Inspiring Healthcare Entrepreneurs (2023) and earned two 2024 Stevie Awards. Under his leadership, KCLA has provided over 30,000 infusions to more than 6,000 patients with an 83% success rate, establishing gold-standard treatment protocols while expanding services to include General Psychiatry and TMS therapy. Highlights:  The founding story of KCLA and early skepticism from the medical community Why IV ketamine outperforms nasal Spravato in efficacy and cost-efficiency Creating individualized ketamine protocols for optimal patient outcomes How insurance companies create barriers to effective mental healthcare KCLA's 83% success rate compared to 50-70% in controlled research settings Expanding from ketamine to TMS and general psychiatry Preparing for future psychedelic medicines like MDMA and psilocybin The critical flaws in America's mental healthcare system Episode Links:  Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles (KCLA) The difference between Ketamine and Spravato (esketamine) Third Wave's Ultimate Guide to Ketamine Episode Sponsor: Psychedelic Coacing Isntitute's Intensive for Psychedelic Professionals in Costa Rica - a transformative retreat for personal and professional growth.

Lesley Logan sits down with Sam Mandel, co-founder of Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles, to discuss the transformative potential of ketamine therapy for mental health. They debunk common misconceptions, explore its impact on PTSD, anxiety, and depression, and highlight how it empowers individuals to reshape their personal narratives.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:What ketamine therapy is and how it differs from traditional treatments.How ketamine enhances neuroplasticity and helps reframe traumaThe science behind ketamine's impact on depression, anxiety, and PTSD.The difference between medical ketamine use and recreational misuse.What to expect during a ketamine therapy session.How ketamine therapy can help individuals reconnect with themselves and regain motivation.Episode References/Links:Ketamine Clinics LA Website - https://Ketamineclinics.comInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/ketamineclinicslaFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/KetamineClinicsLASam Mandel Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thesammandelGuest Bio:Co-founder & CEO of Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles (KCLA), Sam Mandel, is a tour-de-force of compassion and innovation in mental health care. From volunteering at a teen-to-teen suicide prevention hotline at twelve to pioneering one of the world's foremost Ketamine Infusion Therapy clinics in 2014 alongside his father, Dr. Steven L. Mandel, Sam has channeled his lifelong passion for healthcare advocacy into transforming lives for the better. Sam was featured in Entrepreneur's list of Top 10 Inspiring Healthcare Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2023 and acknowledged by MSN as an Entrepreneur Leading the Business Frontier in 2024. Numerous media outlets have interviewed Sam for his expertise in Ketamine Infusion Therapy, and he is a frequent speaker at medical conferences and events. Under his leadership, KCLA has provided over 30,000 infusions to over 6,000 patients with an 83% treatment success rate, establishing the field's gold standard treatment protocols and patient satisfaction. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.DEALS! 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I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Lesley Logan 0:59  Okay, Be It babe. This is going to be a different kind of episode, but in the best way. I have Sam Mandel, who is a founder of Ketamine Clinics in LA and I was really intrigued by what I know about ketamine from my friends' holistic doctors. And when he came up as someone I could interview, I was like, oh, we need to do this, because there is a lot of misinformation about ketamine and what ketamine can be used for, and I'm on a mission to help you be it till you see it. And I really want you to understand all the different ways that you can have support in feeling more like yourself and not letting things get in your way. And so that is why we're going to talk about ketamine today. And if you think you know what it is, I strongly encourage you to just stay and listen, because I thought I knew and I learned so much. And then on top of all of that, I really enjoy Sam's story of how he started these clinics and what he and his dad did. And so there's just a lot of beautiful information in this episode, and I can't wait for you to hear it. So here is Sam Mandel. Lesley Logan 2:00  All right, Be It babe. I am really excited. I can tell you for a fact, we've never talked about this on the Be It Pod. And only is it quite timely, I think it's actually extremely imperative that we have this discussion so we have Sam Mandel here on the show. We're gonna talk about ketamine and all things about it, ketamine therapy. Sam, can you tell everyone who you are and probably why you rock at ketamine therapy?Sam Mandel 2:25  Yes, yeah. Thank you so much for having me, Lesley. So, I am Sam Mandel. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles. We're one of the first ketamine clinics in the country, established in 2014 and we specialize in IV infusions of ketamine for mental health, but we also offer several other innovative therapeutics for mental health. Lesley Logan 2:45  I love that mental health is something more people are talking about, and there's like more awareness around it, but also that there can be clinics that are working on different ways of helping, supporting mental health, including these infusions. For people who have heard about ketamine, and maybe not the positive ways, can we kind of, can we just dive in and ease their nerves about what we're talking about here?Sam Mandel 3:07  Let's do it. Some of your listeners are definitely like, ketamine what? And there's five different people saying that it's five different things, and all of them are correct. So that's one of the interesting things about ketamine. It is, first and foremost, an FDA-approved anesthetic for humans. It was FDA-approved in 1970. This is an old medicine. It's also commonly used in veterinary medicine. So a lot of people know of it as a horse tranquilizer or a cat tranquilizer. In some circles, it's more commonly known as that than as a drug for humans. But there's a lot of medications that we use for humans, that we also use in veterinary medicine. And it's also a drug of abuse, or something that people use recreationally or self-medicate with, depending on how you want to look at it, known as Special K. Same drug. It's used as an analgesic, as a pain reliever, in emergency room departments and crisis situations, trauma situations, when someone's in a terrible accident, they're in pain, they need sedation, or someone goes in and they need their shoulder reset, they commonly will use ketamine for conscious sedation. So it is a ubiquitous drug. It has a lot of different uses and applications, and one of its most recent, or probably its most recent, addition to that list of its identities, if you will, is as a mental health treatment. And in the last 25 years, there's been a growing body of clinical research proving ketamine to really be among the fastest, if not the fastest-acting, safest, most effective depression treatments available today.Lesley Logan 4:36  I mean, it's kind of amazing that it can be all these different things, also not, right? Like there's so many things, I feel like there's a lot of untapped medicines out there that we're already using, and we don't realize it could be done for other things. Can we talk about how it helps? Because I'll say my family's understanding of mental health treatment is when you sit on a couch and you talk to a therapist and you go weekly if you're depressed, you can take a pill that will kind of help with some hormonal imbalances. But that's not what this is. Sam Mandel 5:01  Yes, that is not what this is. And by the way, talk therapy is great. I go to therapy every week, you know, even when I'm in a good place and I don't necessarily feel like I have a lot to talk about, it's like going to the gym. I just go. I show up every week no matter what. And I think that's really good and healthy, especially if you have a therapist who you think cares about you and is invested in you, and you can just talk about, you know, life. And I'll tell you, sometimes when I go and I don't have anything bothering me or an agenda is when I do the most important work in those sessions, sometimes, so you just never know. But talk therapy is great, but it can only go so far. The conscious mind really gets in the way. Finding someone who cares is difficult the right credentialed person is expensive. A lot of the best people typically don't take insurance. It's not true for all of them. There's wonderful people out there who do, but a lot of the really good ones don't, and so it's a tough thing, but it has its limitations, like with anything. Ketamine and other psychedelic medicines, because ketamine, for all intended purposes, really is a psychedelic, and it's really the only legally available psychedelic in the United States, has the ability to really dissolve these barriers that get in our way. It helps people to get out of their own way and with exponential growth in ways that really are not possible and haven't been seen in any other treatment or modality. And the way it does that is really two primary mechanisms of action. The first is the neuro chemical effects and what's going on in the brain and how ketamine is impacting the brain and our neurochemistry in ways that really nothing else does. And the other is the experiential component, psychologically, what is going on during the experience or the trip that people have when they're receiving this medicine. And both of those are profound and really create lasting impact. On the neuro-chemical level, there's a neurotransmitter called glutamate. It's the most abundant neurotransmitter in the brain. It's present in 85% of the brain. All the other neurotransmitters combined comprise only 15% but for some reason, we've been disproportionately focused on them with mental health treatment. Those are the common ones you know of. Serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, you know, the most common class of antidepressant medications are SSRIs. Those are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and those are targeting serotonin. They're a tool. They help some people. They really don't help a lot of people, too, and the people they do help, they really cause a lot of negative side effects and weight gain, sexual dysfunction, dried mouth, blurred vision, even increased suicidality, and the list goes on and on, really terrible side effects that are really debilitating for a lot of people. Even when those side effects are not as debilitating, the quality of relief is typically not very good. So people will say, oh, well, I definitely am not as depressed, but I don't feel happy either. I'm just kind of existing. They have the spectrum of life and of the human experience narrowed, so the lows are not as low, but they're not really thriving either. Not a nice place to be. Is it better than being in bed all day? Absolutely. But that's not the goal. That's not my goal for my life. That's not my goal for other people's lives and for the patients who come to our clinic. We want people to really thrive. Ketamine has the ability to help people to truly thrive. It restores compassion for self and others. It is enhanced energy and motivation for most people. It's a genuine reconnection of self. One of the things that happens with this, with the glutamatergic system and other processes that are occurring in the brain with IV infusions of ketamine, is it causes and promotes neurogenesis, enhanced neuroplasticity, actual new pathways, new connections forming in the brain. This helps people to form new habits, new patterns, new ways of thinking and being that can be very, very positive by disrupting a lot of the automatic responses and reactions we have in our day to day life that get so deeply enmeshed in us that they become a part of our personality, and ketamine can kind of push the reset button on that so that we have the opportunity to consciously choose who we want to be and how we want to be, and helps us call into question the things that we've accepted as just that's the way that I am, or that's the way that it is, and that's not the case most of the time. You look at trauma, for example, ketamine is extremely helpful for depression and anxiety, but also for PTSD, and a lot of people have some trauma that is at the root of one of those issues, and ketamine helps people to recraft the story around that trauma. So what happened is fixed and can never change. The past is the past, but our stories about it can change at any given moment, who we are and who we were and the other people and our role in it, and their role in it, and what happened and what didn't happen, and ketamine provides this kind of objective clarity on that that can be extremely healing and transformational for people.Lesley Logan 9:50  Yeah, this is fascinating. What I've known about ketamine, and I have friends who, I have a holistic doctor friend who offers it as a treatment, and I've heard of these amazing effects that can happen, but I never understood on the brain level, like what's going on and why it's different than the antidepressants that people are on, and how it could, so if someone comes in, first of all, what are some of the reasons why they're coming in for treatment, and then what is the, what are the expectations? Are they coming in one time for an IV infusion? Is this a weekly thing? And how long can the effects last? Can it be forever? Do they have to keep coming back? Can I get the lowdown on that? Sam Mandel 10:25  Yeah, you're asking all the right questions. So what treatment looks like is typically a series of six infusions over two to three weeks after that process I just explained where people are cleared for treatment. They come in, we have them fill out some paperwork, do a brief physical exam, and they come back to a private room. We help them to become comfortable in a recliner with noise canceling headphones, a sleep mask, unlimited selection of relaxing music, pillows, blankets, and we start an IV, and then we infuse the ketamine for 50 to 55 minutes. And it's a slow, gradual, steady state of infusion. People are conscious and awake the entire time. There's a level of dissociation where we don't want them to go so far that they don't know what's happening, but we want them to go into it far enough that they can kind of have a little bit of that quieting of the noise and chatter in their minds, and get a little bit of that clarity that I was describing earlier, and this separation really from themselves in a healthy way to take a look at things that can be really therapeutic, and doing that inner work. We monitor them the whole time. We use hospital-grade monitoring equipment. So that's like pulse, oxygen, EKG, blood pressure, continuous monitoring. I mean, it's a very safe medicine when it's used responsibly in a clinical setting like Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles. We still do all the proper monitoring just to make sure that people are comfortable and safe. And yeah, it's, that's pretty much the, you know, summary of the experience.Lesley Logan 11:53  Yeah, no. Thank you for sharing that, because I think, I don't think anyone's ever explained that, and I'm trying to think about people listening. It's like, well, what does it look like, you know, because let's just talk about what, we have heard about ketamine in the news lately, and it will continue to be in the news as people are going on trial, like when we hear Matthew Perry pass away from not the best use of ketamine, I think people are like, well, then how do you, what does it look like? Am I doing this myself? And I love that you have a wonderful protocol that allows people to be safe and use it in the best way that gets them the best results. But can we talk about the dark sides of ketamine, and what are some signs that people might not be in the safest situations using ketamine?Sam Mandel 12:30  Yeah, well, I'll definitely answer that with your reference to Matthew Perry, which is obviously a really sad situation. He was taken advantage of by people he trusted. He was a addict. He had a really, he's really struggled with addiction. He was very public about that, and not with ketamine specifically, but with really any substance that he could get his hands on. And was in a lot of pain, obviously, and it's a terrible situation. I think it's really important that people understand, though, that that has nothing to do with ketamine therapy. And the media created a lot of confusion for people saying that he had had ketamine therapy a few weeks ago and but that wasn't really a part, a factor in his death. But by the way, he had that and, you know, saying that he died from the acute effects of ketamine, that's just it was really, really distorted. He took more than 10 times the dose of ketamine that we give in the clinic by himself, in combination with buprenorphine, which is essentially an opioid, and Lorazepam, a benzodiazepine, which is another sedative. So he's combined three powerful sedatives, one of them in really absurd doses, by himself in a hot tub. And of course, what happens? He becomes incapacitated and he drowns. This is not, this is such a departure from what we do when we use ketamine in a therapeutic context. There's no correlation, but the way that it's been reported on, and what the average person hears is, oh, ketamine is a bad, dangerous drug, and that's it. That's the takeaway, and that's really a sad thing for people to to get from it. What they should get is that addiction is a serious illness. What they should get is taking lots of sedatives in combination is dangerous. Taking drugs unsupervised, alone in a hot tub is dangerous. These are the takeaways. There was even medical doctors involved in supplying it to him, but they were part of an illicit, underground, illegal drug ring. You know, this is not like mental health care, you know?Lesley Logan 14:25  I know. It's so sad because, well, first of all, the whole situation is sad. It's sad that someone was taken advantage of. It's sad that someone died from combining too many things, but also because they had doctors doing it, like all of that is sad, and, but, really, what I find, and one of the reasons I wanted to talk with you is, so this podcast is called Be It Till You See It, and one of the things that I am always on a search for is like, what can keep us from being it until we see it, what's holding us back in our life, or what can help us more? And the facts of what ketamine therapy that you do that is supervised, and you have pre-screened people to make sure that this is the right therapy for them, the benefits can actually change people's lives, like you said at the beginning, to choose what they want, and that allows them to step into the person that they want to be, like to me, this can be an amazing option for people who they know what they want, but they are just stuck, and they've got other things going on that with their mental health that the talk therapy hasn't helped with, or antidepressants haven't helped with. And so I really wanted to, like, clear the air and go, this can be an option for the right person.Sam Mandel 15:30  Absolutely and I'm really grateful for the opportunity to speak with you and for you creating a platform to have conversations like this, because people deserve to know the truth. And you know, you talk about talk therapy. I mean, a number of patients have literally said that was like 20 years of therapy in an hour. I mean, it really is that exponentially transformational. And it's not instead of therapy, but in addition to, right? When you can do a treatment like this and then work through the material and the learnings that come up for you with someone who understands mental health, who you trust, that's where a lot of even more growth can happen, and you can implement those learnings into your day to day life in the weeks to come. That process is usually referred to as integration, and it can look a lot of different ways, but then you have your experience. How do you integrate it into your life and actually make lasting change? Ketamine really does produce transformation for most people. In the almost 11 years that we've been doing this, we have done over 30,000 infusions. We have an 83% success rate, and we're typically not seeing people who are just wanting to have growth because they're stuck. We're seeing people who have treatment resistant depression, complex PTSD, severe anxiety, suicidality. I mean, there are definitely more moderate cases, but we see a lot of people have really just they've tried a lot, and some of them tried everything, and they haven't benefited. And this really works for them, because it works on under a completely different mechanism of action than the conventional treatments like antidepressant pills or even ECT or talk therapy, or really anything else out there. Lesley Logan 17:04  Yeah, when I think about PTSD, we obviously a lot of things about vets. People have been in the military, but there are people with PTSD who have had other traumas. It doesn't have to be that you've been to war. You could have been in a bad car accident, you could have been assaulted. Can you kind of explain and maybe it's redundant, but just how does ketamine help with PTSD, and then what does someone's life look like? What with one, do you have a case that a person who you can talk about, like, who had PTSD and like, what their life was like after the ketamine treatment? Sam Mandel 17:29  I'm glad you bring that up, because while a lot of us do think of military and war, there's actually many more cases of PTSD among the civilian population in the examples that you mentioned with violence, assault, accidents, etc. So it's super common, unfortunately. I believe there's around 16 million Americans suffering from PTSD who are at least diagnosed. There's many more, I'm sure, who are undiagnosed. And ketamine really does help with the neurochemistry in the brain and helping to rewire the brain, and it also really helps with the perception that we have of ourselves, of the event. People who have trauma are able to go back and revisit the trauma without being as emotionally triggered by it. And so sometimes, when I've talked about this with you know, friends, they say, yeah, you can revisit your trauma and work through it, and it's so great. And they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why would I want to revisit my trauma? What are you talking about? I'm going to go and spend time and money to go there? No, thank you. I spent time and money avoiding my trauma, not going to visit it. But it isn't like that. You know? There's this ability to work through it without having the kind of pain of going there that is so often keeping people from addressing it head on in talk therapy and in life. We avoid, naturally, what's painful, but it isn't painful for most people in this context, they're able to have this detachment that is healthy in this way, to revisit it and to understand who we are, who we were, what our role was, what It was and etc, and to get clarity on that. And it can be really healing. It can really provide closure for a lot of people. And just with the whole cascade of different chemicals going on in the brain, it gives people generally a better mood and more positive outlook and demeanor, and enhanced feelings of compassion towards oneself and towards others and energy and motivation and just all around wellness, it's an elevator in that way which can just be really motivating for people to be able to do the things that most of us know we need to do and just struggle with in terms of our lifestyle, like fitness and eating healthy and sleeping well and talk therapy and having healthy relationships with people, getting outdoors and getting some sun and some fresh air, doing things we enjoy, all that stuff is absolutely critical for longevity, and for someone who's really severely depressed or anxious or dealing with real trauma, they can also feel like it's almost impossible to do a lot of those things. Lesley Logan 20:00  Yeah, yeah. You know, it's really interesting. If you're not someone who has PTSD, or you haven't had, like, severe depression, it can be hard to understand that it becomes all encompassing, you know? But if you think about it, like, when you've had an injury, you've been sick for a few days and you can't leave the bed, that's the the domino effect of what happens to your strength, and then what happens to your ability to, like, feel like you can reach out and that you can connect with people because you've been sick for a week. It's an easy way to see like, oh, if that's my life all the time, you know, it's not easy to go outside, and it doesn't feel easy to connect with people. And so it becomes part of their whole life. And so it's really cool to hear that with ketamine treatments over a couple of weeks that they could have a new lease on life and enjoy it. And I love that you brought up longevity, because I think we forget that how we treat our bodies now is what dictates how long will you get to have them? Hopefully, there won't be anything that stops us from living the life that we're supposed to but if you don't see like a lease on life there, what longevity do you have, you know, so it must be really amazing to get to do what you do every day. You really help so many people.Sam Mandel 21:01  I love it. It's the most gratifying thing ever, you know. When I tell people a lot of my job, the reality of what I do on a day to day basis, I have to do a lot of things I don't like to do, I don't want to do. I'm the CEO of my company. I get the worst, toughest problems that no one else can deal with. I get the fires to put out, the problems, the issues that got escalated to me, and all the weight and pressure and responsibility of it, and there's a lot of stuff, this is not fun, frankly, but I do it because of the, for the patients and for my team, and the work that we're doing, the impact that we're having. It's hugely motivating and gratifying. And when I see patient who I pass in the hallway in the clinic, and they just, can I just give you a hug, or I just want to say thank you so much, or we get a new Yelp review, and someone goes through and lists, you know, half my team by name and how amazing each one of them is, and how life-changing this has been for them. That's what gets me up in the morning, and that's what helps me to keep going every day. I just love it. The transformations are very abundant. And, you know, like I said, 83% it's not magic. It doesn't work for every person every time. It's not perfect, but it is a really incredible treatment.Lesley Logan 22:04  Yeah, yeah, I do understand that. I mean, my husband and I run our own businesses, and sometimes you can forget what you do while you're doing it, because you're doing all the fires, yeah? But then you do get stopped by someone who's been helped by it, or their life has changed, and you're like, oh, that's why I do this. Obviously, you know, it's been a journey to get to do this. Can you take us back how you figured out how to create a space where people could have ketamine therapy? You know, you are the first in the country. So, like, there wasn't really a model to go off of. So I feel like there's a be it till you see it story in there.Sam Mandel 22:36  Oh yeah. Started with me building the website with GoDaddy website builder, drag and drop modules, not knowing a lick of code, never built a website or anything of the sort, not even the most tech savvy guy, and literally just dragging and dropping and, you know, doing research on articles and clinical research, and conferring with my father, who I co-founded the practice with. He's a physician, and I'm talking about, what do you think about this? I'm just trying to make sense of it all in a way that I could understand it well enough to then be able to put it into layman's terms and explain it to other people. What is this? How does it work? And just putting it together, and then going to Radio Shack and getting a motorLesley Logan 23:17  That's how long ago this is because I don't even think they're around anymore.Sam Mandel 23:20  They're not, They went bankrupt. Lesley Logan 23:22  Was it the Radio Shack on Santa Monica Boulevard underneath the yoga place? Because that was my favorite. Sam Mandel 23:27  It was the Radio Shack in Marina Del Rey by the CVS and little strip mall off of Max Stella or something. Anyways, I got a Motorola flip phone prepaid, and I said to my father, you ready to launch the site? We're going to make it live. And made it live, and started taking calls on this cell phone. We were renting space in another doctor's office that was literally this closet. No kidding, they used it as a utility closet before we rented it, and once we moved out and got our own space. They went back to just keeping boxes in there. That's how tiny this room was, no kidding, and it was just really a trip. We had a operating room, recovery area, recovery room for an OR right outside of that little closet that we were in, which, by the way, we were sitting at literally just two folding chairs, a folding table with two laptops, and that was it, no kidding. And we use this recovery area to see patients. And we saw our first few patients, and their transformations were so incredible. We went, this is just too special. We have to do whatever it takes to do more of this. And my father was working as an anesthesiologist. He also has a master's degree in psychology. He was chief of anesthesia in this plastic surgery suite where we were. And so it started out with, well, he's already there, doing anesthesia for the surgery. Maybe we see a couple patients here or there, see how it goes. And next thing we knew, we just started getting busier and busier. The word got out. This was such a radical thing that a lot of people were very incredulous, very suspicious. A lot of people were very critical, but we were like, it doesn't matter. I mean, this is just too special. And it got to the point where my father had to choose between doing our cases or doing ketamine infusions for patients. And I, I remember that quite vividly, where I said, it's really gotta pick. We can't continue to do both. And it was a big risk, you know, it was a really big risk. So I have a lot of respect, you know, for him, for that and that we both just said, let's be all in on this. And, you know, we bootstrapped it. We put everything on credit cards. We had no investors, no financing, no loans, nothing. It's just a little bit of cash, credit cards. And really, just brick by brick, built it up, and now we have 15 employees, 5000 square feet, a really beautiful purpose-built office. I still have, well after the falling table, I had a custom desk built because of maximizing every inch of that space. So I had, there was a little nook between two pillars in that room, under a window, where they made this skinny little desk that was probably literally eight inches wide by three and a half feet long or something. Just stick it in this little nook so I could sit at a proper desk, and I still have that here in our suite now, and so that's kind of fun, but, yeah, it's just truly been an incredible journey.Lesley Logan 26:12  I thank you for taking this back, because we do have a lot of people who are entrepreneurs, and I think that they need to hear that like even a ketamine clinic, the first of its kind, starts in a utility closet. You know, people don't realize, because if you, one, you have to know if people want the thing. You knew it was great. You knew it could be amazing. But you have to get people to buy in, and especially on something that long ago, where people might not know all the amazing things that it can do. And even today, now, even with a beautiful space that can attract people in and make them feel super safe, doing something that changes lives, but also going up against where misconceptions, misinterpretations, and also the people who are misusing it can affect the majority getting the help that they need. I love hearing the stories of how things come to be. And also that is pretty amazing that your dad was like, yeah, I'm gonna quit my safe job. There's always gonna be surgeries, you know. So that's so, so, so cool, and it's really amazing. Is there anything about ketamine therapy that I haven't asked you, that you want to make sure people know? Is there anything else that we can help people understand why this would be something they might need to use, or might use so that they can have the life they want to have?Sam Mandel 27:19  Yeah, I do want to mention, you know, I was talking about how, you know, Matthew Perry was misusing it, and how different that situation is from what we do. And ketamine is still something that people do use recreationally or abuse or misuse. It's not as common, I think, as sometimes it's portrayed, but it definitely can happen, but it's also not in the same category as most other substances, because ketamine is not addictive in the way that most others are. And what I mean by that is you don't develop a physical dependence on it if, for example, like nicotine or opioids or alcohol or benzodiazepines, all you can get to the point where you actually need it to not feel sick. I mean, you have physical symptoms of feeling like nausea, headaches, wanting to throw up. Even with benzos, you can actually, if you abruptly stop taking high doses, you can literally have seizures and die. And you know, you can have symptoms from abrupt cessation of alcohol if you're a heavy alcoholic. That doesn't happen with ketamine. So some people can use it in the way that they're using it as a means to escape, but that's not really that different as far as the psychological dependence in the way that someone can use ice cream or chocolate or, you know, sour candies or sex or any of these other video games as a means of escape or avoiding or to self-soothe. So I think it's important that people understand that. It also has a very, very high therapeutic index. There's actually no known lethal dose of ketamine, so you can obviously be in a bad, unsafe environment, where, if you take a bunch and get into a car, that's not a not such a great outcome for you, or in a jacuzzi, but the medicine itself is unlikely to hurt you on its own. Most of the issues are people in bad situations, or they're combining it with other drugs. Virtually, almost all of the fatalities that are related to ketamine were one of those two, either in combination with other drugs and or in a situation like behind the wheel of a car. So I just want people to know that it's not to say that there aren't people who have an issue with misusing ketamine, because there are, but it really is distinct from most other substances that people are misusing or abusing.Lesley Logan 29:20  Thank you for saying that, because I do think, as a child of the night, you know, I grew up in the 80s, so it's, like, always just say no to drugs. Sam Mandel 29:25  The cocaine epidemic. Lesley Logan 29:28  Yeah, so I know they really that didn't really help them, did it? But, like, they thought it would. But I, like, grew up, so it's really funny when I have friends who, like, talk about doing some sort, some psychedelics, or do I have this innate like, I don't, I don't know, I don't know if I could do that. I'm afraid to try. I'm like, I'll be addicted on the first dose. Sam Mandel 29:45  Right, right, right. Lesley Logan 29:47  This is my fear, which is why I drink, right? That's what people do. And so they said no to drugs, but then they drink. But I really appreciate because it's nice to know that if I were to do a ketamine therapy, I'm not going to be dependent on coming to ketamine therapy every single week or I'll be using it at home, like, it's nice to know that it's a non-addictive thing that people can use to get the benefits. And I think that can make a lot of people feel more comfortable, you know. Sam Mandel 30:08  Yeah, because people are afraid of that, they think, God, well, if I go and do this, even if it's in a therapeutic way, am I going to become a ketamine addict? You know? I'm going to go and then be looking to score some on the street the next day. It's really a sad perception that some people might have due to the media or for whatever reason or they know somebody who misuse ketamine or the DARE program, like you said, or the 80s. A lot of baloney. Lesley Logan 30:28  Oh, and by the way, the DARE program was a lot of baloney. I just heard a whole podcast about it, and I was like, ah. So, but it, but it does put in people's minds, and also good for good reason. Like, I don't want people going out there doing other drugs we do know our addictive and like, hoping that they are fine out there the first time, but I am on this mission of helping people figure out how to get out of their own way and live their best life, and sometimes our own way are things that are really outside of our control, the PTSD, the depressions, the mental health, the suicide like I think it's important that people have access to forms of therapy out there that they may not know about or they may have misconceptions. Because we do know that the media does like to click bait things into headlines that get people to look at them, but don't actually give all the information. So I'm just so grateful that you were here to just really explain all this and the benefits of it.Sam Mandel 31:22  Absolutely, yeah, no, I appreciate the opportunity. Yeah, there are drugs that you can do once or twice and develop a real serious problem with pretty fast, methamphetamine, probably not one that you need to ever try. You know, if you're curious about trying drugs, I'd say take that one off the list. Heroin, probably not a good idea. Pretty easy to die, pretty easy to get addicted to that one, right? Opioids, crack, cocaine. These are some that maybe you don't need to, you don't need to check out, but maybe there's some others that if you really want to with the right mindset in the right context, if you're going to be safe or responsible, maybe you'd be okay with. And by the way, I'm not advocating for you to go do illicit drugs illegally either. But there are some that you can have, even in a controlled environment, such as ours, where you don't need to be afraid of them. I'll tell you what are the most dangerous, though, is the prescription legitimate drugs. As a matter of fact, prescriptions are more commonly abused than any of the other illicit drugs. You look at your stimulants like Adderall, your benzodiazepines, like Xanax, opioids, I mean, these are drugs that are a lot of people are really hooked on and that are killing a lot of people, especially the opioids, but because they're from big pharma, they're not all that bad. I mean, people are finally starting to scrutinize the opioids, but the others are still kind of under the radar, and they're really widely abused, but the focus is on the big, bad, illegal ones. Lesley Logan 32:39  I know of a client who's a social worker, and she used to work in a hospital, and we're talking about pain meds, and she's like Lesley, I watched a 14 year old kid come in super healthy, just had a broken arm. They had to have surgery, but within the three days they were there, they were extra tapping the pain meds. And she's like, we create addicts with these pharmaceutical drugs quickly, but we don't think of it like that, because they had a prescription written. And so it's important for us to educate ourselves, to be informed and to be able to advocate for ourselves or advocate for others when we have this information we can. So, thank you so much. I'm not gonna let you go. We actually are gonna take a brief break, and then we're gonna find out Be It Action Items from you. Lesley Logan 33:19  All right, Sam, where can people find you, follow you, connect with you. If they want to know more about ketamine therapies, if they want to come to your clinics, how can they connect with you best?Sam Mandel 33:28  Yeah, so ketamineclinics.com. That's K-E-T-A-M-I-N-E-C-L-I-N-I-C-S dot com. Lots of great information on there. People are more than welcome to call us, 310-270-0625. Consultations are free. We're always happy to chat see how we can help you. We do offer other treatments we really didn't talk about today, TMS, General Psychiatry, medication management, we take 12 of the biggest insurance networks in California, including Medicare, so there's a lot more that we can cover with you. Whether or not ketamine is the right fit if you are dealing with a mental health condition, I would encourage you to call and see if there's anything we can do to help. And we're on social it's ketamineclinicsLA on all socials and my personal is theSamMandel on all socials. And just really happy to connect with people and hear their stories, answer questions and help in any way that we can. Lesley Logan 34:23  I love it. Thank you. And that's also so cool, because we mentioned, like, it can be really hard to find a therapist these days because they don't always take insurance. So to hear that you do. It's really nice. Okay, we always ask people bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted steps they can take to be it till they see it. What do you have for us?Sam Mandel 34:41  Oh, I wasn't ready for that one. I would say action. Take action. Just do it. Take Nike slogan. I mean, honestly, planning and strategizing is important, and thinking things through and figuring out who you are. What you want, what you like, what you don't like, putting together a plan matters. But I think most of us, or almost all of us, spend too much time on that, and there's just too many unknowns and too many things that you really can't solve for until you're in it and doing it, and it's too easy to let perfectionism keep us from taking the steps that we need to take to get done what we want, become, who we want to be, and who what our potential is. And I personally struggle with this too. So I say that from, you know, my own experience, and I really strive, and I want to encourage other people to really strive, to just get out there and do it, and you're going to make mistakes, and that's okay, but it's really the only way to succeed in life. You have to be on the fields, on the court, in it, and behind the scenes, thinking, planning, strategizing is only going to get you so far.Lesley Logan 35:58  Yeah, yeah. Oh, thank you for that. And also, I can tell you, practice what you just preached, because it's true. You started with a utility closet and some folding chairs and a Motorola phone, I mean. But also, you're correct. People do spend too much time in the planning, or they're waiting for it to be perfect, or they're waiting for the perfect decoration, and then they have the perfect branding and all the things. And if you guys had done that, you wouldn't have been able to help the thousands of people that you have today. So thank you so much, Sam for being here, for educating us, for informing us. Lesley Logan 36:29  And, you guys, how are you gonna use these tips in your life? Please share this episode with a friend as you hear conversations come up about the misuse of ketamine, and now you know you could share this with them to educate them, and also, if you have friends and family or yourself who needs this, please contact Sam and his team, because there's help out there for you. Until next time, Be It Till You See It.Lesley Logan 36:50  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See It is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network. If you want to leave us a message or a question that we might read on another episode, you can text us at +1-310-905-5534 or send a DM on Instagram @BeItPod.Brad Crowell 37:33  It's written, filmed, and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan, and me, Brad Crowell.Lesley Logan 37:38  It is transcribed, produced and edited by the epic team at Disenyo.co.Brad Crowell 37:42  Our theme music is by Ali at Apex Production Music and our branding by designer and artist, Gianfranco Cioffi.Lesley Logan 37:49  Special thanks to Melissa Solomon for creating our visuals. Brad Crowell 37:53  Also to Angelina Herico for adding all of our content to our website. And finally to Meridith Root for keeping us all on point and on time.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Send us a textIn this powerful and insightful episode of Security Halt!, host Deny Caballero sits down with Sam Peterson, an EOD veteran turned entrepreneur, to explore the challenges of transitioning from high-stakes military environments to civilian life, mental health struggles, and the groundbreaking innovations transforming veteran care.Sam shares his personal battle with trauma, panic attacks, and depression, revealing how these experiences led him to redefine his purpose and become an advocate for advanced mental health solutions. The discussion takes a deep dive into the shortcomings of traditional mental health treatments, highlighting the need for private sector innovation in veteran care.The episode also covers cutting-edge treatment modalities for PTSD and TBI, including:✔️ Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) for brain healing ✔️ Ketamine Infusion Therapy for anxiety and PTSD relief ✔️ Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) for neurorehabilitation ✔️ The role of neuroinflammation in trauma recoverySam's work with Mind Spa is helping veterans and first responders access new, science-backed treatments that challenge conventional mental health approaches. If you're interested in brain health, innovative healing techniques, or the future of mental health treatment for veterans, this episode is a must-listen!

This week we will discuss the use of Ketamine for treating Depression.  Our guest for this week's show is Karen DeCocker, DNP, PMHNP, CNM Karen DeCocker is the Director of Advanced Practice Providers at Stella overseeing the assessment team. She helps to identify which innovative biological medical treatments & virtual therapies can help relieve symptoms of anxiety, depression, PTSD & traumatic brain injury.  After completing a virtual assessment of each patient, Dr. DeCocker and her team analyze the medical, biological, psychological & social factors to provide personalized treatment recommendations across Stella's advanced protocols such as Dual Sympathetic Reset (advanced stellate ganglion block), Ketamine Infusion Therapy, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Spravato, integration therapy, and more. Dr. DeCocker's priority is the patient's outcome. She became a nurse practitioner in 2007 after 10 years of hospital nursing experience. As rates of depression and anxiety have increased dramatically, people have sought therapies outside the standard regimen of oral antidepressants and talk therapy. Beginning in the mid-2010s, more and more doctors started offering ketamine as a treatment for depression. In 2019, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved esketamine as a treatment for forms of depression that haven't improved with standard antidepressants (like citalopram/Celexa or bupropion/Wellbutrin).   (Source: Psychology Today) 

In the months before he died, actor Matthew Perry was undergoing ketamine infusion therapy for depression. Was a man with known addiction issues a good candidate for the treatment?To find out more about Tortoise:- Download the Tortoise app - for a listening experience curated by our journalists- Subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts for early access and exclusive content- Become a member and get access to all of Tortoise's premium audio offerings and moreIf you want to get in touch with us directly about a story, or tell us more about the stories you want to hear about contact hello@tortoisemedia.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the months before he died, actor Matthew Perry was undergoing ketamine infusion therapy for depression. Was a man with known addiction issues a good candidate for the treatment?To find out more about Tortoise:- Download the Tortoise app - for a listening experience curated by our journalists- Subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts for early access and exclusive content- Become a member and get access to all of Tortoise's premium audio offerings and moreIf you want to get in touch with us directly about a story, or tell us more about the stories you want to hear about contact hello@tortoisemedia.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Depression is a common and debilitating mental health condition affecting millions of people worldwide. Despite the availability of various treatment options, a significant proportion of individuals with depression do not achieve adequate symptom relief. One promising newer treatment is ketamine infusion therapy, but its current availability is relatively limited. Dr. Darren Jakubec is a GP anesthetist practicing in Smithers, where in addition to supporting surgeries at Bulkley Valley Regional Hospital, he provides pain management, counselling, and runs a dream clinic. Dr. Jakubec saw a unique quality improvement opportunity to use his skills and experience with anesthesia and mental health to bring ketamine infusion therapy to patients experiencing refractory depression in his local area of Northwest BC. The QI project was a true team effort that included patient partners, a patient peer advocate, a psychiatrist, clerical and nursing support. The project achieved positive patient outcomes and received very positive patient feedback. Dr. Jakubec shares the successes and challenges of this innovative approach to supporting mental health, and also discusses the joys of hockey, impromptu dance parties, and the value of paying attention to our dreams.

Have you tried medication after medication to find that nothing works? Don't lose hope! You can now manage your TRD with ketamine IV therapy from Chrysalis Ketamine (888-836-4334). Learn more at https://chrysalisketamine.com/depression-treatment-thousand-oaks-ca/ Chrysalis Ketamine City: Thousand Oaks Address: 430 E Avenida De Los Arboles Suite 205 Website: https://www.chrysalisketamine.com Phone: +1-888-836-4334 Email: hkarpanian@gmail.com

In this episode, we look into Ketamine infusion therapy with our guest, Sam Mandel, the co-founder and CEO of Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles. With his strong dedication to mental health advocacy, Sam discusses Ketamine infusion therapy. This treatment method offers relief for a variety of mental health conditions, including depression, PTSD, anxiety, and suicidal tendencies. The conversation provides insights into how Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles sets itself apart with its treatment approach. They also discuss the function of ketamine and how it works within the human body to remedy mental health challenges. Subsequently, Sam elaborates on how patients engage with the process and the impressive success rate of the clinic. Finally, he provides valuable advice on seeking out reputable ketamine therapy clinics. You will get an insider's look into this innovative therapy that provides rapid, effective results with minimal side effects. 00:00 Introduction 00:16 Understanding Ketamine Infusion Therapy 01:34 Exploring Diverse Uses of Ketamine 03:54 The Actual Process and Care in Ketamine Infusion 03:33 Benefits and Duration of Ketamine Infusion Therapy 09:20 Features of an Ideal Candidate for Ketamine Infusion Therapy 24:24 Advice for Potential Therapy Seekers Support the Show Veteran Suicide & Crisis Line: Dial 988, then press 1 4Patriots - visit https://4Patriots.com/DriveOn to get the best discounts and deals on survival supplies! Links & Resources Website: https://ketamineclinics.com Follow Sam Mandel on Instagram: https://instagram.com/thesammandel Follow Sam Mandel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thesammandel Follow Sam Mandel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesammandel/ Transcript View the transcript for this episode.

In this episode, Emily delves into the world of ketamine infusion therapy with Nurse Alli Bascom. They explore the multifaceted aspects of ketamine's use beyond its traditional anesthetic role, particularly in treating mental health conditions. Nurse Alli shares insights into the therapeutic benefits of ketamine infusion, discussing its potential in alleviating symptoms of depression and pain. Listeners gain a comprehensive understanding of the procedure, its safety considerations, and the evolving landscape of psychedelic-assisted therapies. This episode provides a nuanced perspective on how ketamine, under careful medical supervision, is becoming a promising tool in mental health treatment. Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554406/#:~:text=Go%20to%3A-,Mechanism%20of%20Action,serotonin%2C%20thereby%20increasing%20serotonin%20activity https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559078/#:~:text=It%20is%20diagnosed%20when%20an,sleep%20disturbances%2C%20or%20suicidal%20thoughts https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7730956/

Join 6AMRun.com Ambassador and Host, Marc Paisant, as we welcome Ketamine Infusion Expert and Entrepreneur, Sam Mandel.   Sam Mandel is a lifelong mental health advocate & entrepreneur. Sam cofounded Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles with his father, Dr. Steven L. Mandel, in 2014 and has grown the clinic to be one of the most successful and well-respected Ketamine Infusion Therapy clinics in the U.S. He serves as the company's Chief Executive Officer and is responsible for the day-to-day operations and strategic direction of KCLA, managing its growing staff of 16. He oversees all non-clinical functions, including patient satisfaction, human resources and employee retention, vendors, marketing, public relations, technology, compliance, legal, and finance. Sam also enjoys weightlifting, traveling, snowboarding, and spending time with his dog Banksy. Please visit: http://ketamineclinics.com/ to learn more. To be a guest, or share your story with the 6AM Run Community apply at: https://forms.gle/hBHCKpYKT6R9tH6m7 6AM Run believes in improving everyone's physical ability to not only have motion, but STAY IN MOTION. All this while creating an amazing supportive, surrounding community. Run Faster, Farther, & Recover For More Runs! Guest are found through podmatch.com and recorded through Riverside.fm. 6amrun.com #6amrunSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Coming up on today's show -My guest is Sam Mandel CEO  of the ketamine clinic Los Angeles ,I'll be talking with Sam about the KCLA,S work and the pioneering treatments that have helped thousands of patients and led to an Amazing success rates By The KCLA So then   (KCLA) is a world-renowned ketamine clinic specializing in intravenous (IV) infusions of ketamine for various mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, suicidality, and other mood disorders. Cofounded by Dr. Steven L. Mandel and as mentioned CEO Sam Mandel in 2014, KCLA emerged as one of the pioneering ketamine clinics in the United States. With a strong focus on reshaping and redefining mental health care, the Mandels have been at the forefront of utilizing Ketamine Infusion Therapy, delivering more than 25,000 infusions with an 83% success rate over ten years-The use of low doses of ketamine properly administered by a professional for mental health issues is having a massive impact on the huge problem facing societies mental health sufferers,My guest Sam Mandel is here today to discuss just how much the ketamine treatment that the KCLA administers how much that  is helping those suffering and consequently is showing amazing results,I think I'll make this point also The ketamine is not an alternative to traditional allopathic medicine it is in fact a massive part of it -In addition all of its staff at the KCLA are uniquely qualified in their field of expertise and they definitely have a  finger on the pulse of the latest innovations to help and treat those in need ,///My understanding having not talked with Sam yet is the use of low  dose treatment of ketamine “could “ possibly alleviate   The need for constant medication that maybe masking the actual cause of dis-ease  by treating the symptoms only But I must be careful here throwing out guesses or assumptions as I'm not the expert .K.C.L.A Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles - Nation's Leading Providerhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Ayelet-Waldman/e/B000APIXG8/ref=aufs_dp_mata_mblYou can find the simon Laurie king podcast on all the usual platforms as well as Facebook-universessim YouTube apple , buzz sprout etc If you enjoy the episode give it a like and subscribe also if you'd be so kind -Leave a comment below or Send the show an email- Theslkpodcast@gmail.com but either way please keep them kind .————————————————————All jingles artwork and logos are copyright and owned by the simon Laurie king podcast © 

In this inspiring video, we dive into the transformative journey of Sam Mandel, a lifelong mental health advocate and successful entrepreneur. As the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles (KCLA), Sam has played a pivotal role in establishing KCLA as one of the most respected and renowned Ketamine Infusion Therapy clinics in the U.S. With his father, Dr. Steven L. Mandel, Sam embarked on the mission of creating a safe haven for individuals seeking mental health solutions. Since its inception in 2014, KCLA has flourished under Sam's leadership, now boasting a team of 16 dedicated professionals. As the CEO, Sam oversees all non-clinical aspects of KCLA, including patient satisfaction, human resources, vendors, marketing, technology, and finance. His strategic direction has propelled the clinic's growth and success, while ensuring the highest standards of care and compliance. Beyond his professional endeavors, Sam enjoys various pursuits, such as weightlifting, traveling, snowboarding, and cherishing time spent with his beloved dog, Banksy. His vibrant personality and passion for life shine through both in and out of the clinic. Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles stands at the forefront of mental health innovation, offering Ketamine Therapy, Psychiatric Medication Management, and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) with plans for further advancements. Accredited by Quad A, the clinic upholds the gold standard in safety, efficacy, and patient satisfaction. The exceptional clinical team at KCLA, including highly skilled professionals such as an Anesthesiologist with a master's degree in psychology, double and triple-board-certified psychiatrists, a physician assistant, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, registered nurses, and administrative staff, collaborate in a state-of-the-art, 5,000-square-foot facility in Los Angeles, CA. At KCLA, accessibility is crucial. The clinic has joined forces with nine of California's largest health insurance plans to expand the reach of their life-changing services. Anyone seeking mental health support will find compassionate care and effective treatment within the welcoming walls of KCLA. Ready to learn more about ketamine therapy for mental health and wellness? Visit our website at http://ketamineclinics.com. Join us on this transformative journey and discover the incredible impact of ketamine therapy – a pathway to a brighter future. #ketaminetherapy #mentalhealthawareness #transformingmentalhealth #sammandel #inspiringstory #ketamine #mentalhealthtreatment #mentalwellness #hope #recoveryjourney #depression #anxiety #ptsd #addictionrecovery #mindfulness #selfcare #healingjourney #breakingstigma #endthestigma #suicideprevention #therapy #mentalhealth #therapy #mentalhealthmatters #breakthestigma #selfcare #mentalhealthawareness 

In this inspiring video, we dive into the transformative journey of Sam Mandel, a lifelong mental health advocate and successful entrepreneur. As the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles (KCLA), Sam has played a pivotal role in establishing KCLA as one of the most respected and renowned Ketamine Infusion Therapy clinics in the U.S. With his father, Dr. Steven L. Mandel, Sam embarked on the mission of creating a safe haven for individuals seeking mental health solutions. Since its inception in 2014, KCLA has flourished under Sam's leadership, now boasting a team of 16 dedicated professionals. As the CEO, Sam oversees all non-clinical aspects of KCLA, including patient satisfaction, human resources, vendors, marketing, technology, and finance. His strategic direction has propelled the clinic's growth and success, while ensuring the highest standards of care and compliance. Beyond his professional endeavors, Sam enjoys various pursuits, such as weightlifting, traveling, snowboarding, and cherishing time spent with his beloved dog, Banksy. His vibrant personality and passion for life shine through both in and out of the clinic. Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles stands at the forefront of mental health innovation, offering Ketamine Therapy, Psychiatric Medication Management, and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) with plans for further advancements. Accredited by Quad A, the clinic upholds the gold standard in safety, efficacy, and patient satisfaction. The exceptional clinical team at KCLA, including highly skilled professionals such as an Anesthesiologist with a master's degree in psychology, double and triple-board-certified psychiatrists, a physician assistant, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, registered nurses, and administrative staff, collaborate in a state-of-the-art, 5,000-square-foot facility in Los Angeles, CA. At KCLA, accessibility is crucial. The clinic has joined forces with nine of California's largest health insurance plans to expand the reach of their life-changing services. Anyone seeking mental health support will find compassionate care and effective treatment within the welcoming walls of KCLA. Ready to learn more about ketamine therapy for mental health and wellness? Visit our website at http://ketamineclinics.com. Join us on this transformative journey and discover the incredible impact of ketamine therapy – a pathway to a brighter future. #ketaminetherapy #mentalhealthawareness #transformingmentalhealth #sammandel #inspiringstory #ketamine #mentalhealthtreatment #mentalwellness #hope #recoveryjourney #depression #anxiety #ptsd #addictionrecovery #mindfulness #selfcare #healingjourney #breakingstigma #endthestigma #suicideprevention #therapy #mentalhealth #therapy #mentalhealthmatters #breakthestigma #selfcare #mentalhealthawareness 

In this revisited episode of Beyond the Balance Sheet, Dr. Craig Heacock joins us. He is an adolescent and adult psychiatrist and addiction specialist in Colorado and the host and co-producer of the podcast Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories. First, Dr. Heacock gives us a brief history of ketamine from the last fifty years as an FDA-approved drug. We talk about how ketamine became a go-to treatment for resistant depression and bipolar disorder. Tune in as Dr. Heacock reveals how a state-of-the-art assessment delivery and follow-up for ketamine would look like.   IN THIS EPISODE:   [02:00] Ketamine: a brief history of the past fifty years.   [05:00] How would a state-of-the-art assessment delivery and follow-up for ketamine look like?   [09:00] Who is running the ketamine clinics if there's a shortage of psychiatrists?   [11:55] How money and profit drive some of this ketamine delivery.  [16:09] Dr. Heacock's experience with individuals who abuse ketamine.   KEY TAKEAWAYS:   Ketamine is a go-to treatment for resistant depression and bipolar disorder. A state-of-the-art ketamine therapy involves a true psychiatric evaluation to see if there are other things that should be happening first. Ketamine does not replace medications; it augments them and helps them work better. Most people that are receiving ketamine treatments are very middle class. LINKS MENTIONED: craigheacockmd.com   Podcast: Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/back-from-the-abyss-psychiatry-in-stories/id1469826718   Facebook https://www.facebook.com/theabysspod/   Instagram https://www.instagram.com/backfromtheabysspodcast/   LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-heacock-md-1a8618196 BIO: Dr. Craig Heacock is an adolescent and adult psychiatrist and addiction specialist in Colorado and the host and co-producer of the podcast Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories. He was a co-therapist in the Phase 3 trial of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD and has particular interest in the use of ketamine and other psychedelics to treat severe mood disorders and PTSD. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and did his psychiatry training at Brown University.

On the first What The Func?! episode of season 5, Laura and Clayton chat with Sam Mandel, CEO of Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles. They discuss the mental health benefits of Ketamine Infusion Therapy and why it's developed into a treatment option for individuals with treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, PTSD, suicidality, and other mood disorders.  On What The Health?!: New Year's Resolutions? Let's see the stats. Code FUNC15 for 15% off organic mattresses and bedding at https://www.naturepedic.com. Code FUNC15 for 15% off your first order of the Adapt Naturals Core Plus bundle at https://adaptnaturals.com/FUNC15  Learn more about Functional Medicine Health Coaching at Functional Medicine Coaching Academy

In this episode, I talk with Christi Meyers, the Founder and CEO of Flow Integrative, a ketamine infusion clinic in San Diego, California.In our conversation, Christi tells us about Flow Integrative as a form of practicing medicine that provides ketamine infusion therapy, as well as Flow Institute as an educational platform. She discusses the characteristics that make Flow Integrative unique, including its holistic wellness model in bringing together the mind, body, and spirit.We also talk about how Christi's diverse background in fire jumping, emergency medicine, and teaching led her down a path to learning about ketamine as a tool to “help the help,” which birthed the idea of Flow Integrative.Throughout our conversation, we highlight valuable advice from Christi, like the importance of sitting with ketamine for those interested in providing it to patients. Finally, Christi reflects on the future of psychedelics and her hope for the continued evolution of ourselves so we can better serve the greater good of humanity.Time Stamps:(5:45) What is Flow Integrative and how it is shifting the practice of healthcare by connection the mind, body and spirit with oneness(9:13) The importance of IV ketamine infusions as a modality of administration(14:06) What is it like to be a patient of Flow Integrative? - meeting patients where they are at so they can heal themselves(22:25) Ketamine regulation and insurance in California and employee-driven benefits through Dr. Bronners(30:46) The set and setting of ketamine therapy at Flow Integrative(34:56) Christi's journey in fire jumping, emergency medicine, and teaching that led her to ketamine as therapy(50:20) Working with other plant medicines in therapy and the ability for them to deprogram and evolve human consciousness(59:05) Tapping into yourself to find your path and purpose through medication, fasting, and sitting with the medicine(1:5:07) The future of the psychedelic field - continuously evolve, find your tribe, and “If it doesn't resonate with you, you don't have to stay there to find your people" (1:28:53) Additional insights for listeners - Flow Integrative is working on opportunities for volunteering and internships for those interested in working with the medicine(1:31:22) Contact informationLinks:Flow Integrative: https://flowintegrativeketamine.com/Flow Integrative for Physicians: https://flowintegrative.org/our-teamDirect Line to Flow Integrative: 909-735-FLOW (3569)Forces of Habit: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674010031To learn more about Psychedelic Grad or to join our newsletter, go to https://www.psychedelicgrad.com/To donate and support Psychedelic Grad: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/psygradMusic by: https://www.alexkahnmusic.com/Presented by Psychedelic Grad.

Sam Mandel, CEO and Co-Founder of Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles, Expert in Ketamine Infusions, Mental Health Psychedelic Medicine Ketamineclinics.com Here are some key points from the podcast conversation between Chris Voss of The Chris Voss Show Podcast and Sam Mandel: Ketamine infusion therapy involves receiving low, sub-anesthetic doses of ketamine intravenously in a clinical setting. It is used to treat depression, PTSD, anxiety, and other mental health conditions. Ketamine works very quickly, with many people experiencing relief after just 2-3 infusions within the first week. This is much faster than conventional antidepressants like SSRIs which can take 4-6 weeks to start working. Ketamine has an 83% success rate for treating depression and mental health issues, even in treatment-resistant cases that have not responded to other medications and therapies. The effects of ketamine last for months at a time, unlike medications that need to be taken daily. There are also no major long-term side effects. Ketamine works through different mechanisms than conventional antidepressants. It stimulates regrowth of neural connections and pathways in the brain. It also induces a psychedelic state that allows revisiting trauma and gaining new perspectives on issues. Proper ketamine treatment involves intravenous administration in a clinical setting under supervision of medical professionals, not taking lozenges or sprays at home which the FDA has warned against. Ketamine clinics provide comprehensive mental healthcare including therapy, psychiatry, transcranial magnetic stimulation in addition to ketamine infusion therapy. Ketamine treatment costs around $3900 for a complete series of 6 infusions. Some insurance plans may cover parts of the treatment. Biography About Sam Mandel Sam Mandel is a lifelong mental health advocate & entrepreneur. Sam cofounded Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles with his father, Dr. Steven L. Mandel, in 2014 and has grown the clinic to be one of the most successful and well-respected Ketamine Infusion Therapy clinics in the U.S. He serves as the company's Chief Executive Officer and is responsible for the day-to-day operations and strategic direction of KCLA, managing its growing staff of 16. He oversees all non-clinical functions, including patient satisfaction, human resources and employee retention, vendors, marketing, public relations, technology, compliance, legal, and finance. Sam also enjoys weightlifting, traveling, snowboarding, and spending time with his dog Banksy.

Sam Mandel is a lifelong mental health advocate & entrepreneur. Sam cofounded Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles with his father, Dr. Steven L. Mandel, in 2014 and has grown the clinic to be one of the most successful and well-respected Ketamine Infusion Therapy clinics in the U.S. He serves as the company's Chief Executive Officer and is responsible for the day-to-day operations and strategic direction of KCLA, managing its growing staff of 16. He oversees all non-clinical functions, including patient satisfaction, human resources and employee retention, vendors, marketing, public relations, technology, compliance, legal, and finance. Sam also enjoys weightlifting, traveling, snowboarding, and spending time with his dog Banksy.About Ketamine Clinics Los AngelesKetamine Clinics Los Angeles is a world-renowned mental health center and leading provider of Ketamine Infusion Therapy. Cofounded by Dr. Steven L. Mandel and CEO Sam Mandel in 2014, KCLA was one of the first ketamine clinics to open in the United States. KCLA is the first and only ketamine clinic accredited by Quad A, upholding the gold standard in safety, efficacy, and patient satisfaction. Services include Ketamine Therapy, Psychiatric Medication Management, and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), with plans for further advancements soon. KCLA has contracted with nine of California's largest health insurance plans to expand access to their services.The clinical team at KCLA comprises an exceptional group of highly skilled professionals regarded as leaders in their field. The team includes one Anesthesiologist with a master's degree in psychology, two psychiatrists (double and triple-board-certified), one physician assistant, one psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, four registered nurses, and six administrative staff. All teammates collaborate in KCLA's state-of-the-art, 5,000-square-foot facility in Los Angeles, CA.www.ketamineclinics.com

https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USIntroducing Sam Mandel, a force of compassion and innovation in the realm of mental health care. As the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles (KCLA), Sam's journey is one of profound dedication to healing. From the early days of volunteering at a teen-to-teen suicide prevention hotline to managing one of the world's foremost Ketamine Infusion Therapy clinics, Sam has channeled his lifelong advocacy into transforming lives.In his role, he orchestrates the symphony of operations that make KCLA a beacon of success and ethical care. From nurturing patient satisfaction to pioneering cutting-edge technologies, Sam is a relentless advocate for best practices in mental health.Join us as we delve into the mind and heart of Sam Mandel, a mental health advocate, entrepreneur, actor, and rapper who's changing the way we approach mental health care and giving voice to the underserved. Welcome to a journey of compassion and transformation.https://ketamineclinics.com/sam-mandel-ceo/ https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US

In this episode we dive deep into my intentions, downloads, takeaways, and messages I received while working with Ketamine for my first time. I go vulnerable and deep into my struggles and challenges with overcoming Trichotillomania, depression, and more. We share personal stories and the science and mental-emotional benefits behind working with Ketamine Connect with Dr Remi @Lucid Therapeutics Jenny: https://www.instagram.com/a__ttune/ https://thelucid.life/ Highest Quality Functional

If antidepressants don't seem to give you the relief you need, or you're ready to decrease your dependency, Thrive IV ((508) 848-8089) in Massachusetts offers FDA-approved ketamine IV therapy to help you move toward a medication-free life. Go to https://www.thriveiv.net/ Thrive IV 49 State Rd Nauset Building #102, Dartmouth, MA 02747, United States Website http://www.ThriveIV.net Phone +1-508-848-8089 Email ThriveIVKetamine@gmail.com

This episode covers: How the primary neurotransmitters involved (GABA & Glutamate) in Ketamine Infusion Therapy act on the human brain and body, what a Ketamine infusion treatment might look like in a professional clinic, when Ketamine treatments are contraindicated and more. Jill is a compassionate medical professional with extensive experience as a Certified Registered Nurse Anaesthesist. https://ketaminewellnessinfusionspa.com https://donnalsherman.com

Ketamine Infusion Therapy, a groundbreaking treatment has been changing lives and offering hope to individuals suffering from treatment-resistant depression, chronic pain, and various mental health conditions. In this podcast episode, we dive deep into the world of ketamine and its powerful effects on both physical and emotional well-being with the Ketamine Clinic of West Texas. Discover how ketamine infusion therapy has evolved over the years, expanding its scope to include mental health treatments such as treatment-resistant depression, anxiety disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Tammy Vaught, the founder of the Ketamine Clinic of West Texas, and Jessica Nosek, the patient care coordinator, share their expertise and personal experiences with ketamine therapy. Tammy, an experienced CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist), explains the unique mechanisms of ketamine in the brain, targeting receptors, promoting neurogenesis, and reducing inflammation. In this video, we debunk common misconceptions surrounding ketamine therapy, including its association with veterinary or party drugs. We emphasize the safety and effectiveness of ketamine when administered in a controlled medical setting, under the supervision of trained professionals. Discover the compassionate care approach of the Ketamine Clinic of West Texas, where patients receive personalized, individualized treatment plans tailored to their specific needs. Our clinic offers a supportive environment, where patients can feel secure, supported, and ready to explore their emotional and physical healing journey. If you're considering ketamine therapy or want to learn more about its potential benefits, this video is a must-watch. Gain insights into the patient experience during ketamine infusion therapy, from the serene and comforting clinic environment to the dissociative state that allows for deep introspection and emotional healing. Join us as we shed light on the transformative power of ketamine infusion therapy and its ability to provide relief for those who have tried various medications and treatments without success. Discover the stories of individuals who have found hope, relief, and new beginnings through this revolutionary treatment. #KetamineTherapy #MentalHealthTreatment #KetamineClinic #TransformationalHealing #DepressionTreatment #ChronicPainManagement #AnesthesiaMedication #Neurogenesis #InflammationReduction #KetamineInfusionTherapy Best of Midland Texas was created focusing on small, local businesses and has been designed to help you find only the best locally owned companies and live events here in Midland. Website: https://www.bestofmidlandtx.com Ryan Shewchuk: https://www.instagram.com/shewchuk Terra Avery: https://www.instagram.com/terrawaypants —----------------------- If you'd like to be a guest on the Best of Midland Texas podcast, send your information to podcast@bestofmidlandtx.com —----------------------- Special thanks to our guests: Tammy Vaught and Jessica Nosek Ketamine Clinic of West Texas https://www.ketamineclinicofwesttexas.com —----------------------- Follow the Best of Midland Texas: TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@bestofmidlandtx Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bestofmidlandtx Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bestofmidlandtx Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bestofmidlandtx —----------------------- Subscribe to the Best of Midland Texas: Youtube: https://youtube.com/@bestofmidlandtx Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-of-midland-texas/id1641005638 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/13lSgXBMwuqmsgUk4dTPlK?si=sGnwuc46R0eh-PKFjay8Rw Anchor: https://anchor.fm/bestofmidlandtx —----------------------- Produced by: Forty Wolves Studios: https://www.fortywolves.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bestofmidlandtx/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bestofmidlandtx/support

Depression is a complex condition that often requires a combination of treatments specific to your needs. If you are looking into adding ketamine therapy to your treatment plan, call Soft Reboot Wellness (650-419-3330) today or visit https://softrebootwellness.com/san-francisco-ketamine-therapy-infusion-center for more information! Soft Reboot Wellness 825 Oak Grove Ave # A101, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States Website https://www.softrebootwellness.com/ Email prc.pressagency@gmail.com

In this episode of Walking on Feathers, Medium Kareen, with co-host Amber, go in-depth on ketamine infusion therapy, Kareen's experience with ketamine, and the spiritual, emotional, and mental effects of ketamine-related treatments. Kareen encourages all who have dealt with trauma to seek out ketamine infusion therapy with a trusted psychotherapist or psychologist.Kareen felt spiritually led to start ketamine in September, and shares both the scary and the freeing details of her trips. She explores how the therapy connects her with her subconscious mind, allowing her subconscious mind to process childhood traumas, anxiety, and depression. She focuses on the importance of surrendering to the ketamine therapy, emphasizing the need to embrace fear and allow herself to travel through consciousness and understand the spiritually and personally symbolic nature of the vivid scenes that are a part of the ketamine trips.Kareen also reminds listeners that spring registration for courses 1, 2, and 3 in mediumship development opens next week. Anyone interested can email her at mediumkareen@gmail.com.“We all have the opportunity to override our mind, but you have to face the fear.”-Medium Kareen

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INTRODUCTION: Frank M. Ligons, MS specializes in exploring the benefits, safety, and payment strategies regarding Ketamine treatment in addressing mental, physical, and addiction-related illness. His three years of ketamine treatment as apatient, combined with his medical background, give audiences harrowing andhopeful insights into this extraordinary therapy. After 25 years of suicidal thoughts and dozens of medications, Frank stumbled upon a psychiatric treatment he had never heard of: low-dose intravenous ketamine. Since all else failed, any treatment he hadn't heard of must be worth a try. After exhausting decades fighting for his life inthe conventional psychiatric medication system, ketamine removed those deadlyideations that claimed his grandmother's life when he was a young child. INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to): ·      Special K YaY!!!·      Medical & Doctoral Dependency ·      Origins Of Ketamine·      Uses Of Ketamine Therapy·      Military Implications·      Treatment Resistant Mental Health Issues·      What Is A K Hole?·      The Failed War On Drugs·      Addiction Risk Of Ketamine  CONNECT WITH FRANK: Website: https://findketamine.comBook: https://amzn.to/3ZYUOzsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankmligons/  CONNECT WITH DE'VANNON: Website: https://www.SexDrugsAndJesus.comWebsite: https://www.DownUnderApparel.comTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sexdrugsandjesusYouTube: https://bit.ly/3daTqCMFacebook:   https://www.facebook.com/SexDrugsAndJesus/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sexdrugsandjesuspodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TabooTopixLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devannonPinterest: https://www.pinterest.es/SexDrugsAndJesus/_saved/Email: DeVannon@SDJPodcast.com  DE'VANNON'S RECOMMENDATIONS: ·      Pray Away Documentary (NETFLIX)o  https://www.netflix.com/title/81040370o  TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk_CqGVfxEs ·      OverviewBible (Jeffrey Kranz)o  https://overviewbible.como  https://www.youtube.com/c/OverviewBible ·      Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed (Documentary)o  https://press.discoveryplus.com/lifestyle/discovery-announces-key-participants-featured-in-upcoming-expose-of-the-hillsong-church-controversy-hillsong-a-megachurch-exposed/ ·      Leaving Hillsong Podcast With Tanya Levino  https://leavinghillsong.podbean.com  ·      Upwork: https://www.upwork.com·      FreeUp: https://freeup.net VETERAN'S SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS ·      Disabled American Veterans (DAV): https://www.dav.org·      American Legion: https://www.legion.org ·      What The World Needs Now (Dionne Warwick): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfHAs9cdTqg  INTERESTED IN PODCASTING OR BEING A GUEST?: ·      PodMatch is awesome! This application streamlines the process of finding guests for your show and also helps you find shows to be a guest on. The PodMatch Community is a part of this and that is where you can ask questions and get help from an entire network of people so that you save both money and time on your podcasting journey.https://podmatch.com/signup/devannon  TRANSCRIPT: Frank M. Ligons[00:00:00]You're listening to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast, where we discuss whatever the fuck we want to! And yes, we can put sex and drugs and Jesus all in the same bed and still be all right at the end of the day. My name is De'Vannon and I'll be interviewing guests from every corner of this world as we dig into topics that are too risqué for the morning show, as we strive to help you understand what's really going on in your life.There is nothing off the table and we've got a lot to talk about. So let's dive right into this episode.De'Vannon: Frank Liggins is the author of the groundbreaking book, IV Ketamine Infusion Therapy for Depression. Why I Tried It, what It's Like, and If It Worked, baby. Yes. Now Frank is here with me today because he specializes in in exploring the benefits, safety, and payment strategies and everything else regarding Ketamine Treat.but the particular emphasis on how ketamine can be used for addressing mental, [00:01:00] physical, and addiction related illnesses. Now, after struggling with over 25 years of suicidal thoughts and all kinds of medication, Frank found his own way to ketamine treatment in that is what has saved his life today. So please listen in and close as we dish on.how this once taboo drughas now made a new name for itself.Hello, are you beautiful souls out there? And welcome back to the Sex Drugs in Jesus podcast. I'm your host of Annan Hubert, and I got wi here with me today. My boy, Frank Liggins. Is that how we say that Liggins. Yes. Yeah, Frank Legged and he wrote a, a damn good book. It's called IV Ketamine Infusion Therapy for Depression.Why I Tried It, what it's like, and If it Worked. The best way I can describe this book is like a mixture between a high, how to guide and a medical memoir, and I've never seen this before. I think [00:02:00]it's absolutely fan fucking brilliant. And Frank, how are you today? Frank: I'm great and I'm glad to hear to be here and I'm very flattered by that intro,De'Vannon: Of course. So go right ahead and tell us about like your education. You have a very interesting degree and I want you to tell us about like your Frank: learning. Yeah, absolutely. I guess my most recent education is, is in, you know, medicine. I have a master's of science in, it's called biomedical Informatics.And one of the things that has been really helpful from having that background is me being able to read and sort through medical studies on my own and be able to report those to people in more of a down to earth De'Vannon: language. Yeah, you hit the nail on the head with the down to earth language because we always wanna be able to talk to people at the level where [00:03:00] they're at.No sense in having all this complex information, if we can't break it the fuck down, like Charlie fucking Brown and give it right in a way that they can fucking use. So, so, you know, you know, the title of this show is Sex, drugs and Jesus. So I, you know, we're gonna be talking about drugs, man, drugs and You know, normally, normally I would ask for like, some sort of client success story, but you know, you really are like your own success story in this, in this space here that we're working in. And. From, from one of the, one of the chapters in your book. One called, but I've tried it all. Mm-hmm. , you were going through this here in this chapter, you're telling us about how you had to take all this medicine as a kid, and then it's, it's followed you into college and you were saying about the side effects of the [00:04:00] medicine.Gave you like fatigue, chronic fatigue, O c d, depression, and, and then this chapter you were talking about how you hate having to take medicine, but the reality is, is that some people really have to be on something or they need to take something. And you said, and I quote, I resent being such a loyal pharmaceutical customer end quote,So talk to me about, because I feel like a lot of people are like this. I've seen people tilting bags of pills around and it's almost like people become a slave to medication. And so what are your thoughts on that? Frank: Sure. I mean, that's a good question because I think it's one of those things that I'm not sure that it gets enough talk or, or let's say it doesn't get enough talk upfront.You know, usually you go to the, you know, your doctor, they prescribe you something, you know, for your symptoms. But rarely [00:05:00] do you get the whole, you know, dictionary of the things that you may be dealing with right. As side effects. So you know, a lot of us find that. kind of too late. You know, you're, you, well you're already kind of hooked into the system.But yeah, I mean, I, I mean, for, for most people I know, including myself, that, that have needed like psychiatric medications. It, it, it's really a love and hate situation, you know? And frequently people will go back and forth, you know. , you're on it, maybe you get, you know, some relief, but then you get fed up with the side effects and then you try to cut back.But then you unfortunately discover that you know, you can't function at that level. And before you know it, you're like, me, I just was out of town and I have to carry like 20 pill bottles, like [00:06:00]in. and my sack as I go through security, and they look at me very oddly, because they're thinking, you know, what's a legitimate use of those?So many med, you know, prescription bottles. So yeah, I think it's a tough topic for everyone. I wish people were more open about it and felt more comfortable so that they could realize they're not.De'Vannon: I personally think some people take a psychological they, they, they garner a certain psychological. Pseudo comfort or I guess in their mind a true comfort for for going to see a doctor. Cuz a doctor is almost like, you know, you're not exactly gonna get like a spa treatment or anything like that, but anytime we're being tended to by another human being, there's cer certain sort of like pampered Yeah.Feeling that goes along with [00:07:00] it. And I really think some people. Like going to talk to the doctor, may don't have anyone else to talk to, but this person is there to quote unquote care for them. And it is still a form of affection. And, and so do you think that there's any sort of, look and we're not psychotherapists here, y'all, I'm kicking around what I feel like the spirit is revealing to me.I'm not, you know, this is, this is the, the, this is coming from within. and from I like it. So do you think there's any sort of like emotional need that people are feeling by going to these doctors and, Frank: yeah, I mean, I think that's an excellent question. And, and really one that no one ever asked me, people don't generally talk about, but yeah, I think there are two facets to that.One is, you know, there's a. , you know, when you're suffering in some way, there's a I think an instinct to wanna find some control over [00:08:00] that, to kind of take some steps to feel like you're not just floating into disaster. And so, you know, when you have a medical issue or a psychiatric issue, I think one of the things you're, you're just, you know, grasping for someone to say, I have some idea what's wrong with you, and I may be able to help.So I think. , there's, you know, just kind of that, you know, instinctual survival. And then I think also, like you alluded to is, you know, and this can vary I think, between providers. So like for instance, you know, when we talk about therapists, I've noticed over the years that therapists fall all over the spectrum.And in other words, there's therapists that are kind of almost just like your friend. You know, it's kind of like you just go, you talk about what happened that. and you know, they kind of absorb that or just kind of be a, you know, a sounding board. And then there are therapists that are like very, you know, action oriented who [00:09:00] have, you know, very specific plan.They want to teach you specific skills and they're basically like, Hey, you know, when you're ready to act on these skills, like you'll get results. But like, I, I'm other, otherwise us just talking about it isn't gonna help you. So, you know. But yeah, I, I, I mean, I think you're right. I know plenty of people all over the scale.I've been on the scale in various places. I just think you need to be honest with yourself because, you know, if you're going to a place that's just talking to you, but you're not making any progress, you know, that's, that could be problematic. De'Vannon: And I think that goes for. MDs, like general practitioners, medical doctors, and psychological doctors.Sure. Basically what Frank and I are saying is if you're going to these doctors and you're, you're not really getting healed and cured, then perhaps you should reevaluate and consider why you're [00:10:00] really going. Absolutely. Because switching the medication around, like they try to do what's at the va, the Department of Veterans Affairs, where I.You know, you go and sit in there, you talk to the doctor for 30 minutes and it's like, what drugs are you on? Shall we up the dosage or change it? Those are really the only questions they give a fuck about an asking you . So that's why you see veterans toting 20 pill bottles around and everything like that.It's common, yeah. Common at the va. And so we're saying, why are you going? There's people in my family who are like, . So regular at the doctor, they should have like a gold v i p card in their own fucking parking spot outside with their team on it. . But I'm like, is shit really getting fixed? Right? And so then that's where, that's where ketamine comes in.So right off the bat, what if somebody goes, well, is it ketamine a drug just like all the other drugs? What's the Frank: difference? Yeah, so Ketamine actually [00:11:00] was developed in the 1960s. And one like little piece of trivia that's interesting is it was designed to be an improvement on P C P. So , De'Vannon: hell yeah. Yeah.What's going Frank: on? ? With a medical, you know, facility had, you know, developed pcp. The thing is they found out there were a lot of side effects, right? So they start working on, you know, how can we, you know, get a sedative that we can use for surgery and such, and a pain reliever that people may not react as dramatically too.And so they came up with that in the early sixties and there was, you know, a lot of excitement about it because now. They had, you know, you know what we would, you know, call a, you know, a hypnotic sedative, [00:12:00] which you could use reliably on people that was, you know, very safe. You know, they're very, you know, few serious side effects, if any.They're, they're usually very brief and actually, while this was, you know, kind of growing in the surgical domain, it was getting a lot of attention. on the battlefield because in war situations and war time situations, you know, when you have you know, people literally out on a field, you know, being shot and injured in different ways, you know what's, what's something kind of easy, safe.That will meet the needs of us, like, you know, trying to help people right then, you know, how can we calm them down? How can we lessen their trauma in the moment? How can we you know, relieve pain? And so, you know, this ketamine comes along and, you know, all of a sudden, you know, the battlefield, [00:13:00] you know, medical community was like, wow, you know, this actually has a lot going for it.That's how it all started before the days of all the innovative uses we're using it for De'Vannon: now. So, so you're telling me it started on the battlefield before it made its way into like vets offices. Yes. Frank: Yes, exactly. Yeah. So a lot anesthesiologists and like battlefield, you know, trauma, medical personnel were using De'Vannon: at.right? Cause a lot of people know it as like horse tranquilizer, but you know, it has more implications than just dosing horses. And so, absolutely. Frank: Yeah. I'm, I mean, it's something that, you know, with the horses, it'd be the same thing, you know, with us, like, you know, when you need to operate on a horse, you need the the same benefits, right?You need them to be sedate. You need them not to [00:14:00] be like moving and kicking around. You know, you need them you know, not being in too much pain. And so, you know, they're just another mammal, right. Like us, so that makes sense. De'Vannon: It's interesting cause, you know, crystal meth thought it out that way. I think from the Japanese army if I'm, or military if I'm not mistaken.Oh, okay. Because they needed, and I can't remember which warrant, but they needed a way to keep the soldiers up and to make them. Oh, well, basically like they wanna throw themselves a sudden death, so they, so they manufactured, you know, you know, methamphetamine, you know, and then, You know, it kind of like spiraled from there.Like, oh, look at what we have here. You know, this actually feels kind of good and you know, and so the government has probably created most, if not all of these fucking drugs that they now want to call illegal. So I'm like, you did it, bitch. So just [00:15:00] illegal it now legalize it all and be done with it. Right, right.Ketamine, to my knowledge, is now legal across the United States. Frank: It's legal though by pres. . But yes, like anyone that has licensing, you know, privileges. And that's like every type of physician, right? Like, so that could be an MD psychiatrist, it could be, you know, an internist, a cardiologist. Anybody that can write prescriptions can write one for ketamine.De'Vannon: Okay? So what he's saying is this, this is regulated by the dea. It is, fuck the dea. I'm gonna say it again. Fuck the dea. But so that means that I cannot decide I wanna be a drug dealer again and go toting around jugs of ketamine or whatever. And that's unfortunately not man , but you, you can go, you can go to Oregon and get you some ketamine.I do believe that that's a part of their measure one then that they passed. Oh really? But it is still illegal to [00:16:00] sell or deal or whatever the fuck they're doing over in Oregon. But so. . So Ketamine, ketamine, ketamine. How is so you, so you tried ketamine. So let's talk about your personal success story with this.So you were the guy on all the drugs and stuff like that, the different 20 pills. Are you still on the 20 pills now? I'm on, Frank: trying to think what I'm on now. Probably, I think I'm probably on about six pills. About half of which are to counteract the side effects of like the first three pills, . So yeah, still quite a few.This, this is not a cure. I wanna be clear to people about that. Like, ketamine is not a cure. That does not mean that some people don't go for ketamine treatment. And then, you know, there's a long time before they need, you know, a booster or [00:17:00] something. But you know, ketamine is I like to think of it more akin to a rescue kind of medication, right?Because you have plenty of people that you know, have, you know, treatment resistant depression, right? Like people like me who tried every drug, you know, they've been everywhere. They've done everything. But you know, still they have a deep depression and you know, That can do anything from just make their quality of life miserable to, you know, put them in danger for suicide.And so often what happens at that time is, you know, you go to a psychiatrist, Hey, we'll try, you know, something else. You know, we'll make a good faith effort, but you know, it's gonna take two months, you know, if it works at all. And you know, you're in the most horrible state of your life. And it's just like, wow.You know, how am I. Plow through another couple months [00:18:00] and you know, with no promises at the end. What's exciting about ketamine is I literally, and this isn't uncommon after 25 years of those perent suicidal thoughts, I literally went in for my first treatment and those began to dissipate. And so it was.It was shocking. It was unbelievable. And that happens to about two thirds of people with treatment resistant depression. Hmm. De'Vannon: Yeah. Cuz they turn me onto exploring this and this Ketamine is in the hallucinogenic category too, by the way. People, so there're there's, that's, that's what your L s d, your psilocybin, you know, ketamine, all of them are kind of like, well they are classified the same.Because I was watching documentaries about like veterans with like a P T S D. Yeah. [00:19:00] And depression and all of that. And you know, You know, my, my boys, you know, some of us come back from the war, all kinds of fucked up, twisted, chopped, and screwed at every goddamn thing, and talking about treatment resistant mental health issues.Oh, yeah. Can't find anything to fix people who have come back from these wars. And so, and so the, so the military and the federal government have turned to like M D M A. You know, ketamine and stuff like that. And I saw, you know, where these veterans had, they just, like, after one treatment of that, those lar, those intense symptoms like they had went away and they did not return to them.Yeah, that's crazy. And so now, does that mean that they're off of everything? Not necessarily. And I, I would imagine for some people it does, and I don't how, how, how long, how much time that takes to do. But I mean, if you're living in constant chaos every day and this could like just take that from you while you've managed the minor things, I think it's worth it rather than to go in and kill yourself.Frank: Yeah. [00:20:00] Yeah. I mean, , it's I mean, one thing about it is like, You know, ketamine, you know, when you're under the influence of you're, well, you're in this session, one thing that happens, you know, often for people, whether it's depression or P T S D, is they develop a new perspective on their life and on their problems or on, you know, past traumatic events.And so that perspective frequently, is one of like new possibilities and you know, the, the idea of, oh, you know, there is a feeling outside of dread and and terror and, you know, sadness that I can feel. And with that perhaps I could take some next steps in my life, steps that I haven't felt up to and [00:21:00]wasn't sure if I would ever be able to.De'Vannon: That sounds good to me. I like that. , . That sounds Frank: good to me. Not bad, right? De'Vannon: Like too shabby at all? Not too shabby. I'd say . So, so ketamine therapy, when I went to go get it, it was like a fluid in, in like an IV pack. So, I have not seen this in street form, powder form. I don't know what other forms, but we're talking about like in like an official clinic now.Yeah. So you go in. I wasn't impressed with the bitch that did mine because she had me fucked up. And so I'm not gonna try this again in Louisiana because, because they're just too fucking basic down here in this state where I live. God, I know you're listening. Please send me back to Los Angeles where people make sense and they're not afraid to go hard and they get meSo I went in. Ready to hallucinate and shit. You know, I had my, yeah, yeah. Drive me up there. I'm all like, oh, I'm about to talk to [00:22:00] some ancestor. Yeah. And she did not give . I was trying, I felt nothing. I sat there with a thing in my arm and she didn't want to give me a lot, and she said she did some kind of fucked up calculation.By my standards professionally, you know, as a, as a medical professional. Cause I'm a licensed massage therapist and hypnotist myself. I understand why you would want to go into something. Yeah. With a high degree of caution. And so she does some sort of calculation based on body weight or whatever. So this shouldn't send someone into a K hole.I'm gonna ask you to describe what a keyhole is in a. But but I was like, at that time I was like 230, you know, pounds or something like that. I'm like, bitch, you need to crank up the dose here. This is a lot of weight to go around. And so I didn't feel, I felt like drunk and wooy. Yeah. I didn't feel, I didn't have any like, It was like $450 to go in there and not get what I came for.[00:23:00]Yeah. So I wasn't pleased with it, but I'm glad that you had, you know, some happy-go-lucky Smurf results. . Frank: Well, you know what I mean? It, it's a funny thing because the, like not everybody experiences like the hallucinogenic. and I would say it's probably, you know, a lot, you know, dose dependent. So like you said, I mean your story makes sense, right?You come in, you're a new patient, you get kind of the minimum standard dosage. So like you said, you know, what does that feel like? I mean, it's, for me, my first experience was, yeah, I just kind of felt kind of intoxicated. I mean, it felt good. Like I felt very. I kind of had a, you know, a feel good sensation, but I certainly wasn't like, hallucinating or felt like anything on that level, but I, but you [00:24:00] can experience a lot more of that at higher De'Vannon: doses.Well, I will have it done one more time in California, . Okay. Okay. I'm not doing this shit in Louisiana. If I, I could have taken $450 and went to go talk to homie on the corner, you could've and definitely had a fucking out-of-body experience. Oh yeah, yeah. You trying to do the right fucking thing and go to the legal clinic, everything, and I felt like I got got for my money.I feel like. Frank: But I understand that's It's a lot. It's a lot not to get, you feel like you're not getting the bang for your buck, man. Like, De'Vannon: understandable. So, so basically what y'all can take out of this is if you're gonna go get ketamine, be sure to talk to them about the dosage and find you somebody who's not afraid to take it up a bit.If you know that you have a high tolerance for narcotics and drugs and things like that. Mm-hmm. . So that's not a question that I asked him before I went. Maybe it could have been d. You know, [00:25:00]thought about it, but, Frank: and everybody's different. And like you said, like if you've had, you know, one thing I mentioned in a book is if, if you've had a lot of, you know, drug experience, like a lot of experience with various types of intoxication, I think that kind of changes like your, I mean, it, it, it, it oftentimes, I think it's a positive thing because,You know, whenever you're on a drug, particularly something like you haven't tried before, if you never spent a lot of time like being intoxicated, it can be frightening to feel like you're losing control. Right? So, you know, you're leaned back, you know, kicking in, kicking in this, you know, dark room, they got the IV hooked up and all of a sudden, you know, you kind of start to float away.Some people react very anxiously. to that. But I found on the other hand, you know, whatever, if you used to Drake and you're used to smoking, you used to, you know, whatever it is, you're like, Hey, I, you [00:26:00] know, could kind of roll with this. Like, this is a, this isn't the most challenging situation I've ever been in, De'Vannon: and I haven't done a lot of shit now.Frank: That's what I'm saying. So you're a soldier, man. I mean, literally like, you're, you're a veteran in this, you know what De'Vannon: I mean? So I need a double dose. The next time I go in, baby, Hey baby . The first time I did Shum, they took seven grams for me to, for even, it's hard to see anything hallucinogenic. And everybody that I talk to says three grams is like, they're on like the moon.I'm like, no, bitch. It took seven for the, for, for my rocket to even turn on. Oh, that's interesting. Frank: And so, yeah, you may. You may need someone that's, I mean, and it's true amongst practitioners. Some are more aggressive than others, you know? So like I've been in situations where I'm like, okay, you know, this is my, you know, third [00:27:00] treatment, whatever, can we bump it up by, you know, whatever.And you know, one practitioner will say, yeah, you know, we'll add, you know, five milligrams to that and another one they'll say, Hey, no, we'll, we'll add 10, we'll add 15. So you can definitely see a variance amongst the practitioners. De'Vannon: Okay. Now a lot of people have heard of a K hole. I've seen a person in the caho ones we were at this I would say big gay party that happens out in California and leave it at that.Okay. You know, I know he was on the couch, kinda like laying down, you know, aware, but not really. I wouldn't say he was in a state of panic. Nobody seemed to need to call 9 1 1. You know, nothing like that. So what the fuck is a K hole ? Frank: Well, a K hole, which I guess is kind of short for Ketamine hole, is a level of [00:28:00]experience induced by ketamine.which just generally is, is regarded as like extreme. It could be really frightening. It could be really it could be like almost religious, you know, it could be like transcendent. And so first I should say there's no. official definition, there's no like blood test or something somebody could give you and say, oh yeah, he was in a K hole.A K hole is kind of more of a subjective thing. Mm-hmm. , but usually it's used in a, I don't know if I wanna say a negative. It's, it's used as keyholes aren't usually things people seek out. Okay. Because usually by the time you get to that level of dosage, Some, some difficult things can happen. You can hallucinate [00:29:00] you can feel dread, you can feel one, one section of my book, I talk about one of the keyholes that I've been in a few times which I call Six Foot Under , which is where I kind of slowly throughout the session, feel like I'm like being buried alive and I'm kind of underground and everything's really quiet.I kind of have this visual sense of, of dirt kind of being thrown over me. Things are getting really calm and, but like as that, as that, you know, that experience develops if you're not used to it or if you've never encountered. That was very frightening because I, after a while, I started to feel like, whoa, you know, am I gonna be able to like wake up from this?Or like, is something. , you know, really serious happening. Like, am I gonna like die in my dream and like die reali? Like, [00:30:00] I don't know what was going on myself. So there are keyhole themes that people sometimes have and and some of them overlap. Like I, I've heard the Buried Alive thing before. But I've had other bizarre ones too.Like there's I'm trying to think. For me, they usually have to do with somehow. Being stuck or being somehow like incapacitated and, you know, we could do the, the arm share, psychologist, maybe you could tell me what that means. But yeah, overall though, I'd say K holds, they're not to be frightened of.Like they're not gonna hurt you. They're not gonna give you any lasting injury or anything basically. , you know, that's gonna be gone, you know, in a few minutes or whatever. Or you can call the nurse and they can really precipitate, you know, dropping that effect down. De'Vannon: So a keyhole is [00:31:00] not to be confused like an overdose?Frank: No. I mean, some people, I guess like an overdose I would say is, is kind of more of a medical, more of a fixed medical term, saying that you've hit like a level of toxicity. that's now like threatening your body in some way. This isn't necessarily that, but I guess you could pass through the K hole stage on your way to an overdoseSo it's not like something where you just want to be just, you know, sniffing K in your basement and pay no mind to the, you know, the dosage and what not. You're getting, like thinking that you. Having the keyholes, the worst that could happen. That's not the worst that could happen if you go too far.De'Vannon: Okay, so that is wanted to establish, you know that there is such a thing as an overdose, so you can do too much. The keyhole is not an overdose level and so [00:32:00] this is another reason why it's good to do it in a medical facility. and everything like that, so that like, as he said, they can precipitate it, you know, they can come there and put some other shit in your IV to pull you out of it.if they need to. Exactly. Exactly. Frank: You know, they'll throw you to lifeline if you need it, you know. But I guess like to your point of, you know, I guess expanding on that, you know, for my book I interviewed, you know, a recreational user. Of Ketamine to, to kind of get a sense of, you know, why they did it, what they got out of it, how they handled the safety aspects.And the thing about this, you know, particular person was that they were they were very detail oriented and very kind of systematic in their approach. So they actually like did research. , you know, they checked out the source, you know, they [00:33:00] you know, they, of course they started small, they tracked like all their dosages and when they would take them and over what period they would have different effects.So like, this person wasn't like, you know, The average person, this wasn't like a 13 year old, just like, oh, we got a bag of K, let's just start sniffing. I mean, this guy was like, he approached it, you know, basically like a physician. And I think that's probably one of the reasons why, you know, to him he reports, you know, having a lot of great experiences.things that opened him up. Like particularly like when it came to his emotions and he really nev, he never really had any trouble. So I mean, obviously I can't recommend that, but I can report that that's, that's what a real live recreational user explained to me.De'Vannon: That is, you know what? . [00:34:00] We all have our reasons to be there. , we all had our reasons. Yep. And people, you know, you know, we're like drawn to certain drugs, you know, I like, I tried like heroin, hated heroin. Can't can't, can des get as fuck away from me, the yuckiest shit on the earth. But homeboy can't get enough of fucking heroin.I try. I was, you know, a meth party girl. Really? So, Why it's no different than if you go to a fucking buffet and you like the Hawaiian rolls. Yeah, but you don't like the rye bread. You don't know why the fuck you are drawn to certain things fully because we don't know ourselves that deeply. Not, not to that level.Like we don't know why we prefer the color red over green. A lot of this shit is decided before we're born. Right. And so I'm saying all that to say this is why we don't judge people children . So, so you know, you have your vice, people have theirs. You know I never, I never [00:35:00] tolerated when I was a drug dealer, ran my trap house that like the cocaine users who wanted to judge the heroin addict or the, or the person who wanted to smoke cigarettes and felt ashamed even though we were shooting up meth of my life.I am like we, we gotta get some shit right in our heads. People , , like literally a drug house full of every fucking narcotic known to mean syringes. Pipes, porn. And then somebody pops out a pack of Marl bros. Like, is this cool? Like, I don't wanna be offensive. Right? Right. Frank: Like, I think we can accept that, you know, we De'Vannon: could find space for Marlboros.Right. To like the crack pipe and the meth pipe. I think you'llFrank: no doubt, no doubt you, it's gonna be alright.No, you're right. You bring up a good point though. I mean, let's face it, like, one of the things that hopefully will happen is, you know, the government loosens up some of these, you know, restrictions on the research and then [00:36:00] ultimately on the use we'll learn more. , which things are useful to particular people so that you don't kind of have to go through like the smorgasboard and have, you know, maybe a bunch of experiences you don't want.You know, maybe one day it will be more enlightened where it's like, all right, you know, they, this person should, you know, just smoke some tree. This person needs this other thing. This person just needs a microdose of something else. Maybe. Maybe that's the De'Vannon: future. . I don't see why it wouldn't be, cuz half of those drugs have natural origins and roots, be it cocaine, heroin, L s D, you know, weed.Of course all of that shit starts from a plant. Yeah. And so the pharmaceuticals you get in pill form, you know, they try to say a lot of those have natural based products. They start from plants and it's true. And when they go mix all kinds of other shit in there as well. So I don't find that much difference between cocaine.[00:37:00]An appeal from the doctor cuz it's half plant and half synthetic. So what, right. . So you know what, what way? And so, right, right. . So right now, Frank and I are clapping back at this whole war against drug fuck, fuck you Republican presidents for, for starting this bullshit ass war that you knew was just about.Throwing people in jail, you put the drugs on the streets, made 'em illegal, you know, after you made your money off of it. Well, you still continue to make money off of it to this day, . Yeah, in my opinion, I have no sources to quote on that. I have read things, seen and heard many things, and you're fool think the government doesn't benefit from crime.And and so the people who run the government more precisely, can you, do you think a person can become addicted to Keta? Frank: I definitely think somebody could become addicted. I guess, you know, perhaps like a, a deeper question would be, [00:38:00] is that like gonna be a biological addiction or more of a psychological addiction?So, so on the first, you know, on the level of psychological addiction, I mean, You might say anything could become psychologically addicting, right? I mean, even going to stretching it to the point of what you're saying about getting pampered, you know, by visiting different types of practitioners. I mean, you could develop, you know, kind of a I, I, I don't know, like it is kind of like it could be a crutch, right?There's probably at some place in the spectrum where, , you know, something comes from just being a crutch to actually being like a useful, progressive type of therapy. So psychologically I think you certainly could, because y you know, generally speaking, you know, you feel good, you feel relaxed. I mean, you feel better than you do or you did coming in.So I, I think that's, you know, a factor [00:39:00] on the biological level. The way things are now, because you have to, I mean, unless you are getting it from the street the way things are now when you need to go to a clinic or you're in a clinical study or something, I think it would be very hard to become addicted in that scenario biologically, just because you're only getting, you know, so much and with a certain frequency.So, you know, for me, for instance, I usually go about once a. and, you know, do I look forward to that month? Or that next treatment? Yeah. I look forward to it. I mean, especially if like, I've had a difficult month or, you know, I, I feel like, whoa, you know, it really is time for a booster. I look forward to that.you know, whether that's like, do I feel drawn to it? You know, like, I'm gonna break in your house or try to, you know, sell your tv, you know, to get it. [00:40:00] I've never felt anything like that. But I will say that one thing you may find really interesting, and I, I believe I touched on this in the book, is that starting as far back as the eighties in Russia, there was a physician who.Using Ketamine to actually break people's addictions. So he was doing some work with I think heroin addicts, and I wanna say also alcoholics. And what he found based on that work is something that's actually still being used today. There are clinics now that specialize on deploying ketamine to break addiction.And so that's kind of fascinat. De'Vannon: You're damn right. And that reminds me, it's another thing I saw in those drug documentaries I was watching with they were using M D M A and maybe psilocybin two to break addictions. Okay. Yeah. And I was also going to say like [00:41:00] the addiction, a, the addiction risk is no more than say, same addiction risk when these doctors are pro prescribe you things that have addict.Qualities to them anyway. So they're prescribing you. People get addicted to pills from their doctors, then they start going, oh yeah, from doctor to doctor to get the shit. Anyway, so I'm saying like there's no more risk with ketamine than it is with the shit you're getting from the doctor anyway. Frank: So, yeah, I mean, practically speaking, like when you look at the opioid epidemic, right?Mm-hmm. I mean, there are a whole, there are, you know, , I'm not sure what the current number of people is that, that, that are hooked on opioids. But I mean, like you said, it's a good point. I mean, if you're, if you know, how can we com be concerned about one and, and not the other, that's like, you know, literally like a tidal wave of deathDe'Vannon: Right. And I think it's so cool. to use one drug to counteract another. But I mean, you see [00:42:00] that all the time. Just like we were saying, if somebody were to fall into a ca hole, they would put just a different drug into your system. Yeah. To counteract that. So if you're addicted to meth and you use M D M A or ketamine and or shrooms to overcome it, it's the same damn thing.You use one drug to counter counteract the other . Frank: So yeah, you can get yourself in in quite stuck in a circle of. It can be very frustrating, you know? Because let's face it, for most of us, the ideal is just to feel great and not have to take anything else. You know, it's just like, Hey, I woke up, I felt great, and I'm good.You know, that will be nice. I don't have to put anything toxic in my body, you know? I don't have to worry about, you know, drug tests or DUIs or anything, De'Vannon: you know? Hell yeah. We don't need drug test DUIs or the $10,000 that goes with DUIs, [00:43:00] right? , yes. People. If you get a DUI or dwi, I driving under the influence of NT thing, alcohol, weed, whatever.Be expect to pay at least $10,000. Okay. Imagine how much more drugs than alcohol you could have with $10,000 than . Fucking, okay, so the pain is the motherfucking police. Call a fucking Uber or get a friend. Don't get behind the wheel of a goddamn car when you Right, right. We have more to do with 10 grand than to give it to the fucking legal system.Absolutely. Frank: You can buy, you can ride a lot of Ubers for 10 Gs. Man, De'Vannon: look. Uber Luxe. V i p. Okay. . You can beat the Benzs honey. You can beat BenzsSo does your book have information on, you know, besides like what Ketamine is and, and all of the risks involved and things like that, does it tell people like how to talk to their doctors or where they can go to [00:44:00] get the treatment or any kind of thing like, Frank: Yeah, absolutely. Because, you know, and I'm sure, you know, you're so familiar with kind of all these ins and outs, you know when, when when you've been introduced particularly to a drug, you've heard of a drug, but you've heard of it like in a illicit context or like a street context, usually people are afraid then to ask their doctor.So if you just say to someone, Hey, you know, , you know, Frank, you know, he is been having these ketamine treatments. He's doing great. You know, there's a lot of, you know, blockage in, in people's minds like, wait, wait a minute, is that, you know, is Afro horses I heard that's just for the club. Or I, you know, isn't that illegal?Or like, where does that all stand? And so you know, in the book, I walked through, you know, people through like, here, you know, what's the legality? You know, what's, you know, what are you asking your doctor? You know how do you know if you may [00:45:00] be someone that you know, this, you know this treatment would be appropriate for?And the nice thing, you know, these days is that, you know, as these clinics has o have opened up, You can call or, you know, sit down for a consultation really easily and, and, you know, you can bring your medical records and talk all the ins and outs. You know, can I, you know, still, you know, tri Ketamine, if I'm on X drug, you know, can I, you know, if I'm bipolar, is it safe for me or will it make me man?So I, I walk you through a number of those questions and really, I just want people to know that this is perfectly legal. There are many clinical studies behind it, and the, the number of those is just exploding. You have nothing to be ashamed of. And you're probably gonna meet a lot of people and along the way, whose lives have been [00:46:00] changed or even.De'Vannon: Mm-hmm. . And then I wanted to point out, Frank's website is called Find ketamine.com. On there you have information about like how to pay for treatment. It's, it's a, it's a very changing landscape in terms of what insurance is gonna cover and what they're not. It's different for different states. So find the ketamine.com is Frank's websites, so you can go there.He has a kick ass blog that covers a lot of the topics we've talked about today that are also in the book. And on your website you can also book like sessions with you to talk and stuff like that. Can you tell me about what people can actually utilize your website for? Sure. Frank: Absolutely. There are, I, I've tried to make the, you know, information as available as possible.So, you know, almost all the information I have out there is free. I, you can buy like some, what I call them as just information packages on my site where I give. , you know, like particular [00:47:00]reports on something or I even have one that includes videos, like of some of my own treatments. , which is very, you know, relaxing and reassuring when you can actually see the process someone's going through.You can see that they didn't go crazy. You know, I didn't jump out of the chair. You know, I didn't start screaming. Everything was, everything was cool. So I have some of those packages available and then of course you can also contact me. I try to just kind of help people however I can. or we can schedule something, you know, more detailed sometimes also, like I will speak to, you know, groups of physicians or at a conference, something like that.De'Vannon: something like that. We want something just like this. , right? Okay. And there you have it folks. So you know where to go. Find ketamine.com. You can get his Frank's book [00:48:00] there. You can reach out to Frank directly, you can read through his blog. I find his website to be very thorough. It's like, it, it is because when, when I, before I went to get my ketamine done, I was searching all over the internet and I didn't know about his website.You know, and it was like a lot of scattered information and I really found that fine ketamine.com pulled it all together. Had I known about you before I went to go see this bitch to get this fucked up treatment, I think that my treatment would've been more rewarding and I could have got ahead of the game because you think.The lowest package on your side is like $9 and 99 cents, and the most expensive one is 49 99. That bitch charged 450, so I would've rather have paid you the 9 99 to get some fucking head smarts about absolutely because people, I want you to be aware that in this just there's probably gonna be some vulture as doctor out there taking advantage of people.I'm not trying to put fear in you, but true that's not labor under the delusion that everybody's intentions are going to be pure. So absolutely I trust Frank because he is giving you shit for free on his website [00:49:00] and more than enough information for you to work with. But also if you want to go deeper, then there, that's there too, because the man's gotta eat and pay his bills, so, so I fucked with Frank, but I don't fuss with that bitch I went to for my ketamine treatment.No, no, no ma'am. I don't fucks with her. I don't talk to her. No ma.Frank: Man, that that sucks. You had that experience, man, like I'm really hoping your next one is the opposite. De'Vannon: Oh, yes, it will be in California. My homeboy Demi Wild, he hosts the hookup Horror Stories podcast, and he lives over in Los Angeles. I haven't even told him this yet, but like at some point when I visit LA again, I'm gonna snatch his little cute ass up and he's gonna go with me to the Ketamine clinic and babysit me.So, yes, there you go. That's Demi. If you're listening, we're gonna do this Ketamine date, honeyFrank: It's good to take someone with you. You know what I mean? [00:50:00] I, I think that's nice, especially if it's like your early on in your ketamine journey. Sometimes it just feels relaxing. Actually, I know a physician who takes his wife with him and she just holds his hand through the treatment and he said it just makes all the difference in the world.So he feels very connected. He feels very like open emotionally, and it's very calming and reassuring. De'Vannon: Mm-hmm. . Calmness and reassurance. Well, I speak, yes, sir. I speak that Blessed Assurance all over everyone in the world whose ears are open and listening to this broadcast. No doubt. Frank's LinkedIn Frank m Ligan is gonna be listed in the show notes, Frank m Ligans with an S.So that's pretty much all that I had. Was there anything that you wanted to say or bring up or Frank: talk about? Well, I mean, one thing I just wanna say is I, I really appreciate, you know, the work you're [00:51:00] doing in terms of, you know, there's so much and, and I don't know, I guess it depends how conservative people are, but I mean, for me, I, I, I'm a big proponent of, you know, kind of breaching those you know, topics that are, you know, off a little to the left or things that people are generally embarrassed about or people, cuz I just find.You know, it's like an illusion, right? Like there are so many of us that fit into these different, you know, categories or have these different challenges, but when nobody's out there really discussing it, you could feel very isolated. Mm-hmm. , you know, and I'm sure, as you know, I mean, so I just wanna say like, when I I didn't, I didn't you know, reach out to you just at random about you having a podcast.I thought to myself, sex, drugs in Jesus. Like, this is a [00:52:00] man that's willing to put it all on the line and really, you know, talk to the people that may not have anyone else to, to talk to. So I, I just respect that man. Appreciate it and it's just been great being here with you. De'Vannon: Well, thank you. I appreciate those kind words immensely.And so y'all, his name is, Lis, his website is find ketamine.com. You could find him on LinkedIn. And this show will be coming out soon. Thank you so much for coming on, Frank. I wish you champagne wishes and ketamine dreams . No Frank: doubt. No doubt. Hey, thanks very much.De'Vannon: Thank you all so much for taking time to listen to the Sex Drugs and Jesus podcast. It really means everything to me. Look, if you love the show, you can find more information and resources at SexDrugsAndJesus.com or [00:53:00] wherever you listen to your podcast. Feel free to reach out to me directly at DeVannon@SexDrugsAndJesus.com and on Twitter and Facebook as well.My name is De'Vannon, and it's been wonderful being your host today. And just remember that everything is gonna be all right. 

In this revisited episode of Beyond the Balance Sheet, Dr. Craig Heacock joins us. He is an adolescent and adult psychiatrist and addiction specialist in Colorado and the host and co-producer of the podcast Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories. First, Dr. Heacock gives us a brief history of ketamine from the last fifty years as an FDA-approved drug. We talk about how ketamine became a go-to treatment for resistant depression and bipolar disorder. Tune in as Dr. Heacock reveals how a state-of-the-art assessment delivery and follow-up for ketamine would look like.    IN THIS EPISODE:    [02:00] Ketamine: a brief history of the past fifty years.    [05:00] How would a state-of-the-art assessment delivery and follow-up for ketamine look like?    [09:00] Who is running the ketamine clinics if there's a shortage of psychiatrists?    [11:55] How money and profit drive some of this ketamine delivery.   [16:09] Dr. Heacock's experience with individuals who abuse ketamine.    KEY TAKEAWAYS:    Ketamine is a go-to treatment for resistant depression and bipolar disorder.  A state-of-the-art ketamine therapy involves a true psychiatric evaluation to see if there are other things that should be happening first.  Ketamine does not replace medications; it augments them and helps them work better.  Most people that are receiving ketamine treatments are very middle class.    LINKS MENTIONED:    Website  craigheacockmd.com    Podcast: Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/back-from-the-abyss-psychiatry-in-stories/id1469826718    Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/theabysspod/    Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/backfromtheabysspodcast/    LinkedIn  https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-heacock-md-1a8618196      BIO:  Dr. Craig Heacock is an adolescent and adult psychiatrist and addiction specialist in Colorado and the host and co-producer of the podcast Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories. He was a co-therapist in the Phase 3 trial of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD and has particular interest in the use of ketamine and other psychedelics to treat severe mood disorders and PTSD. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and did his psychiatry training at Brown University. 

Are you considering ketamine treatment? Listen to this episode first to get your questions answered. Ketamine Infusion Therapy helps the brain to heal from the effects of past trauma. Join me in this episode with Dr. Steven Reichbach to discuss the power of ketamine therapy for treating PTSD, OCD, depression, addiction, and more.

On this episode, Charles Miller, CRNA at Scenic City Neurotherapy and Nic Colbert, Physical Therapist at Summit Physical Therapy discuss how they collaborate to help patients tackle chronic pain. Pain is not just a product of an injury; it is an experience that is reflective of what is going on in your body, mind, and environment. That is why recovery from chronic pain is an intentional process that takes retraining both the body and the brain - because the brain changes when pain becomes chronic. While Ketamine Infusion Therapy can help to change the brain's perception of pain and pull the inflammation down to where the body can manage the pain, our patients make long-lasting gains with someone like Nic who can help restore things like muscle mass and flexibility. Our special guest, Ashley, shares her experiences with CRPS and how incorporating Ketamine Infusion Therapy into her recovery has changed her life. Call Scenic City Neurotherapy to learn more and schedule a no-cost consultation at 423-228-0579.

On this episode of "Off The Field With Scenic City Neurotherapy," we are interviewing Anna McCurdy, trauma-focused therapist and owner of RailRoad Valley Therapeutics. We cover McCurdy's interest in PTSD work and how it pairs with the treatments offered by Charles Miller, CRNA and Owner/Founder of Scenic City Neurotherapy. We are joined by Josh, a special guest who will discuss his own experiences with Ketamine Infusion Therapy and PTSD. If you are interested in how Neurotherapy can help those suffering from PTSD, call Scenic City Neurotherapy for a no-cost consultation at 423-228-0579.

If you're curious or interested in the use of psychedelics for healing, but the current legal status of these medicines deter you...there's another way.  Ketamine therapy.  100% legal and safe under professional supervision.We sit down with Katy Walker, CEO of Revitalist.  A health and wellness center that provides a number of innovative treatments for mental health, including ketamine infusion therapy.  They provide hope and relief to those suffering with treatment resistant depression, anxiety, PTSD, and even addiction.Katy also received the Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2021 at Wonderland, Miami, the largest psychedelic medicine business event.  She founded Revitalist in 2018, and has since opened 9 locations. She's a true rock star in this space of psychedelics and healing and we are truly grateful to share this interview with you.For more info on Revitalist and the services they offer, check them out at  https://revitalist.com/And if you're local to Louisville, https://revitalistlouisville.com/Follow us on insta! https://instagram.com/seeyouontheothersidepodcast?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=Support the show

Guest: Dr. Eric French, DO Co-Founder, Medical Director Sam Peterson, MBA Co-Founder, Business Development Director Mind Spa is a reconfiguration of how mental health care is practiced and making an individualized treatment for their patients.  Their focus is on whole brain wellness.  Their passion is treating military and first responders.  They just opened a location in Greenwood Village and some of the services they offer are talk therapy, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Ketamine Infusion Therapy.  https://mindspadenver.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Humankind puts robots on Mars, but the brain remains a maze of mysteries and trap doors. No wonder mental health treatment seems so imprecise. Call Ketamine Clinic South Florida (954-320-4944) to check them out at https://ketamineclinicsouthflorida.com/service/depression-treatment-pompano-beach (https://ketamineclinicsouthflorida.com/service/depression-treatment-pompano-beach)

One of the main questions that Dr. Ditzell gets at his NYC psychiatry practice is about ketamine therapy and mental health. So, this week we are going to do a deep dive on all things Ketamine to answer some of the main questions people have about Ketamine as a treatment for depression and more. If these are some of the questions you have regarding Ketamine, listen up. How do Ketamine Infusions work? What is Ketamine Infusion Therapy used for? Is Ketamine Infusion Therapy safe? Does Ketamine help with depression? What are the benefits of Ketamine Treatments and Therapy? Can you combine coaching and Ketamine Treatments? Have you combined Virtual Reality Therapy and Ketamine Treatments? If so, what's it like? Let us know your questions in the comments, or send us an email! Subscribed Yet? Now you can Subscribe to the Psychs & The City Podcast and never miss a new episode! Subscribe for emails or use your favorite podcast app via: Email Apple Podcasts Google Play Spotify Stitcher Leave a Rating & Review for other listeners I hope that you have found this episode and any others you have listened to to be helpful in your growth as someone dealing with mental health or trying to help others along with their mental health journeys. Please consider leaving a review on one of the channels above. The best way to do that is to rate the podcast on Apple Podcasts and leave us a brief review! You can do the same on Stitcher & Spotify as well. Your ratings and reviews help get the podcast in front of new listeners. Your feedback also lets me know how I can better serve you. Thanks for listening, Dr. Jeff Ditzell - Dr. Ditzell Psychiarty NYC

Battling Trauma and Finding Your Light with Ketamine Infusion Therapy : Alli Waddell | Bodies By Brent PodcastAlli Waddell is the co-founder of Illumma, a ketamine infusion clinic founded in January 2019.Ketamine is a legal psychedelic used to heal trauma. Illumma focuses on working with those suffering from depression, anxiety, PTSD, as well as substance addiction and ruminating thought loops such as OCD and eating disorders.Alli considers ketamine infusion therapy as a powerful tool for personal development that is good for stress management and dealing with core issues to help one live a better life overall.Listen in as Alli goes down memory lane and shares a past life that looks nothing like the one she lives today. She talks about her painful attempt to hide her bulimia not just from a public who believed her to be the epitome of health, but even from her own husband.Facing her insecurities around her body image head-on and learning to stop lying to herself and those around her was the first and most important step she had to take in order to finally grow.“Shame hides in the dark, and the only way to release it is to pull it into the light,” says Alli. This begins by telling your story without shame. Healing takes place once you know and accept everything about yourself. You cannot heal secretly.The latest chapter in Alli's life came when her partner, an anesthesiologist, began researching the history of ketamine as a safer alternative to opioids as pain medication for wounded soldiers. Inspired by the breakthrough studies happening around that time, he decided to open a ketamine clinic alongside Alli.Alli does a deep dive into the wonders of ketamine infusion therapy and Illumma's noble vision for the industry, including:●      the mental and emotional benefits of ketamine●      how to really decide whether ketamine is for you●      harnessing the true resilience of the human mind●      the close link between childhood trauma and PTSD●      what to expect during your six sessions at IllummaAlli closes the conversation with her thoughts on the future of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. She attributes its recent mass acceptance to the countless veterans who are demanding help, especially within the last two turbulent years.“Within five years, we're going to have multiple psychedelic tools for people. I hope we can keep the industry as authentic as possible by having patient healing in mind.”Resources MentionedConnect with Alli Waddell: InstagramFollow Brent Hruska on social media: Instagram | YouTubeConnect with Illuma Clinic: WebProduct of the Week: Mushroom MilkA special thanks to Logan Lepper and his production company The Authentic Exposure for their work on Bodies by 

Dr. Craig Heacock is an adolescent and adult psychiatrist and addiction specialist in Colorado and the host and co-producer of the podcast Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories. First, Dr. Heacock gives us a brief history of ketamine from the last fifty years as an FDA-approved drug. We talk about how ketamine became a go-to treatment for resistant depression and bipolar disorder. Tune in as Dr. Heacock reveals how a state-of-the-art assessment delivery and follow-up for ketamine would look like.   IN THIS EPISODE:   [02:00] Ketamine: a brief history of the past fifty years.   [05:00] How would a state-of-the-art assessment delivery and follow-up for ketamine look like?   [09:00] Who is running the ketamine clinics if there's a shortage of psychiatrists?   [11:55] How money and profit drive some of this ketamine delivery.  [16:09] Dr. Heacock's experience with individuals who abuse ketamine.   KEY TAKEAWAYS:   Ketamine is a go-to treatment for resistant depression and bipolar disorder. A state-of-the-art ketamine therapy involves a true psychiatric evaluation to see if there are other things that should be happening first. Ketamine does not replace medications; it augments them and helps them work better. Most people that are receiving ketamine treatments are very middle class.   LINKS MENTIONED:   Website   craigheacockmd.com   Podcast: Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/back-from-the-abyss-psychiatry-in-stories/id1469826718   Facebook https://www.facebook.com/theabysspod/   Instagram https://www.instagram.com/backfromtheabysspodcast/   LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-heacock-md-1a8618196   https://oconnorpg.com/podcasts/ketamine-infusion-therapy-expert-dr-craig-heacock-discusses-safe-protocols-risks   BIO:   Dr. Craig Heacock is an adolescent and adult psychiatrist and addiction specialist in Colorado and the host and co-producer of the podcast Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories. He was a co-therapist in the Phase 3 trial of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD and has particular interest in the use of ketamine and other psychedelics to treat severe mood disorders and PTSD. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and did his psychiatry training at Brown University.

Episode 83: A Journey Through Depression, Anxiety, Binge Eating, Bulimia and Ketamine Infusion Therapy with Illumma Co-Founder, Alli Waddell Alli Waddell is a holistic wellness coach coach, speaker, and the co-founder at Illumma, a Ketamine Infusion Clinic, AUSTIN'S PREMIER KETAMINE INFUSION CLINIC for depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, eating disorders, and chronic mental health issues. Alli has been an expert in the wellness industry for nearly 2 decades, has a history with binge eating disorder and a healing journey to develop radical self-love. In this episode, Alli shares her journey of healing through a binge eating disorder, emotional eating, and her transformation to radical self love. She shares all about Ketamine therapy and how Ketamine has personally transformed her relationship to her inner critic, body image, and the way she shows up in the world. Connect with Alli Waddell Alli's Instagram: @alliwaddell Illumma Ketamine Clinic Instagram: @illummaclinic Illumma Website: http://illumma.com Connect with Ellie @mindfulbellie Mindfulbellie 21 Day Reset: Mindfulbellie.com/21dayreset 1:1 Coaching with Ellie- Book Strategy Session Here Private Breathwork Session with Ellie: Calendly.com/mindfulbellie Website: Mindfulbellie.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mindfulbellie/support

Sara shares her journey with the IV Ketamine Infusions she received from Catalyst Clinic in Pleasant Grove, Utah and why she decided to step into the space of experiencing this powerful medicine to deepen her healing and support her body. Sara shares her experience detailing her individual journey sessions, the science behind Ketamine, how she came into it, and the healing she has received (so far) from her experience. You even get to LISTEN to how it felt to move through the space with Ketamine through a channeled piano piece from the soul of Sara. Sara's journey is meant to inspire and help you tune into if Ketamine is right for you or someone you love. Visit Catalyst online: https://www.catalyst-clinic.com/ Listen to Sara's Ketamine Playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0J2ppDioNACwLPjmpzyv7j?si=051acca8740f4a51 Studies on Ketamine: https://www.newfrontierspsychiatry.com/what-ketamine-actually-does-to-the-brain/ https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-ketamine-infusion-therapy-5194302 https://www.catalyst-clinic.com/the-science Did this episode resonate? Send me a DM! Desiring deeper support? Learn more about working with me 1:1! www.awakentoyourmagic.com IG: mssaramoon

Alright gang, this week we're joined by Rick from Fifty11 Media. Rick has lived one hell of a life (to put it mildly). 

 In this episode we dig into just a few particular areas, including his time in the military, becoming an EMT and the accident which forced him to retire. But our main focus revolves around Ketamine Infusion Therapy. In a candid discussion, Rick explains what it is, how it works, and what's on his 'Ketamine Jams' playlist. Digging deeper into the topic he talks about some of the event's that led him to seek treatment in the first place. The positive affects it's had on him, both as a person and a father, and how it's been a major catalyst for his artistic endeavours. Fifty11 Media You can follow everything that Rick is doing over on his INSTAGRAM & you can check out his art work via the Fifty 11 Shopfiy Store. SHOW BREAKDOWN 03:20 - Joining The Military 08:40 - Childhood Trauma 16:26 - The Accident Which Led Rick to Retire Early 22:52 - Traumatic Experiences as an EMT 24:13 - Mental Space, Medication & Art 28:08 - Ketamin Infusion Therapy 43:04 - Rick's Artistic Endeavours YOU CAN FIND ALL THINGS 'DIMED OUT' RELATED, WEBSITE, SUBSCRIPTION LINKS, OTHER PODCAST RELATED GUBBINS ETC - RIGHT HERE LIKE WHAT YOU'VE HEARD AND WANT TO HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE OF DIMED OUT? THEN CHECK OUT OUR KO-FI PAGE HERE LOVE WHAT YOU'VE HEARD AND WANT EVEN MORE CONTENT? THEN CHECK OUT OUR PATREON PAGE HERE WANT TO GET IN TOUCH? KEEP UP TO DATE OR SEND COMMENTS & FEEDBACK? - YOU CAN FIND ME ON TWITTER & INSTAGRAM --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dimedout/message

In this week's episode, Dr. Jeff Ditzell talks with Taylor James about their coping mechanisms! From LEGO, Chiropractors, and facing the issues head-on the discuss the best ways to find out what works best for you. Beyonce recently spoke out about how CBD Oil has helped her mental and physical health after years of heavy touring, so a hot topic for discussion is there starting to be a shift towards alternative medicine? Dr. Jeff Ditzell breaks down the stigma around these types of medicine and explains the benefits of Ketamine Infusion Therapy and how his practice separates itself from other "Ketamine Clinics" in New York City! If you would like to know more be sure to check out our website or drop us a message on our socials! You can also catch the shownotes from this week’s episode here. Subscribed Yet? Now you can Subscribe to the Psychs & The City Podcast and never miss a new episode! Subscribe for emails or using your favorite podcast app via: Email

Join me as I talk with co owner Tina of the Ketamine Clinic of Spokane. Ketamine treats drug resistant depression, helps those suffering with suicidal ideations, cured me of my nonstop panic attacks (PTSD) and ketamine does so much more! 

A hot topic in the world of psychedelic medicine is whether ketamine infusion therapy is as effective as ketamine-assisted therapy (also called KAP). Today's guests Dr. Steven Mandel and his son Sam Mandel have administered over 13,000 treatments at their Los Angeles-based clinic and they are passionate about the power of intravenous ketamine treatment. On the show we discuss the efficacy of IV ketamine therapy and how it compares to intramuscular as a route of administration. We talk about Dr. Mandel's specific protocol including the use of a pump instead of a drip bag for administration. We cover the potential health concerns around ketamine and finish as always with advice to psychedelic therapists. Dr. Steven Mandel has more than 40 years of experience utilizing ketamine as a board-certified anesthesiologist and has a master's degree in psychology. He is the co-founder and president of Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles, and the co-founder of American Society of Ketamine Physicians, Psychotherapists and Practitioners. Sam Mandel is co-founder and chief operating officer of Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles. A mental health advocate and entrepreneur, he oversees all non-clinical functions of the company and has been active in the ketamine infusion therapy community since its formative days. LINKS Ketamine Clinics Los Angeles American Society of Ketamine of Physicians, Psychotherapists & Practitioners TIMESTAMPS :05 - How Dr. Mendel and his son Sam started the Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles :09 - Should psychedelic practitioners receive the treatment themselves? :16 - How ketamine functions in the brain :23 - Is ketamine infusion therapy as effective as psychedelic-assisted talk therapy? :32 - Intervenus vs Intramuscular ketamine :39 - Dr. Mandel's ketamine protocol :46 - How do you assess the effectiveness of ketamine therapy? :54 - Potential issues with ketamine use: addiction, bladder damage, or cognitive impairment. 1:08 - Dr. Steven and Sam Mandel share their advice

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On this weeks episode we're talking all things Ketamine! Ketamine is wildly known for having either a bad reputation or for being used as an anaesthetic during procedures Dr Jeff talks us through Ketamine Infusion Therapy which is being used to help the fight against depression with incredible results Please be mindful that this is completed in a controlled environment and is completed by a professional If you are looking for additional information please feel free to check out the website Hope you enjoy the episode and hit that subscribe button! Subscribed Yet? Now you can Subscribe to the Psychs & The City Podcast and never miss a new episode! Subscribe for emails or using your favorite podcast app via: Email Apple Podcasts Google Play Spotify Stitcher Leave a Rating & Review for other listeners I hope that you have found this episode and any others you have listened to to be helpful in your growth as someone dealing with mental health or trying to help others along with their mental health journeys. Please consider leaving a review on one of the channels above. The best way to do that is to rate the podcast on Apple Podcasts and leave us a brief review! You can do the same on Stitcher & Spotify as well. Your ratings and reviews help get the podcast in front of new listeners. Your feedback also lets me know how I can better serve you. Thanks for listening, Dr. Jeff Ditzell - Dr. Ditzell Psychiarty NYC

The dynamic field of psychotropic medication has seen groundbreaking results with the introduction of dissociative therapies. This episode hopes to shed light on the use of ketamine for mental health and chronic pain relief and put an emphasis on how CRNAs are uniquely positioned to benefit from its application. Dr. Nicholas Kalynych and Brian Hogan of Sunbelt Wellness Institute will join the show to help us do that.   Read more about the show here: https://beyondthemaskpodcast.com/ep-101-how-ketamine-infusion-therapy-is-treating-mental-health/2700/   Get the CE certificate here: https://beyondthemaskpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Beyond-the-Mask-CE-Cert-FILLABLE.pdf   What we discuss on this episode: 2:22 – What we’re talking about today 3:04 – Background on our guests 6:32 – What’s important about this topic right now? 7:21 – This history and uses of ketamine 10:28 – Microdosing   12:52 – Stigma of mental health   14:25 – Ketamine with other anti-depressants 16:19 – What’s the stigma attached to ketamine 18:09 – How their business got involved with this treatment.   21:23 – Insurance not covering this right now    22:36 – How can CRNAs get more involved with this?   24:30 – Why CRNAs are uniquely qualified 27:39 – How did these uses for ketamine come about? 30:24 – The role of a psychiatrist 34:30 – How they help people get started with this. 38:53 – How is COVID impacting supply? 45:03 – Final message on the topic  

Dr. Austin Harris is a board-certified cardiothoracic anesthesiologist. He completed his Anesthesiology residency at University of California Irvine (UCI), and his Cardio-Thoracic Anesthesiology Fellowship at Keck Hospital of USC. Even before beginning his private practice, Dr. Harris was finding that ketamine, a rarely used anesthetic tool, could have profoundly positive outcomes, when utilized with specific patients. This sparked his in-depth research of ketamine’s previously obscure properties, and its potential in treating patients suffering from mental health, chronic pain, and addiction struggles. Dr. Harris focused first on surgical patients presenting with unique mood, pain, and opioid dependency. Then, after perfecting these techniques at medical offices across southern California, Dr. Harris formed NeuroRelief Ketamine & Infusion Therapy (Sherman Oaks, CA) to bring these successful results to the entire patient population. This much needed service is now benefiting thousands of clients across the country. Tune into the next episode of Health and Wellness University to learn further about Dr. Austin Harris' work. To connect with Dr. Harris please visit: https://neuroreliefketamine.com

Illumma clinic in Austin offers Ketamine Infusion Therapy, which treats a wide variety of issues, and we talk to co-owner Alli Waddell on what it's all about.

In this latest podcast episode, we interview Harmony Green a Health and Wellness Coordinator at Ketamine Wellness Centers to discover the benefits of Facilitated Treatment Support in conjunction with Ketamine Infusion Therapy.

This week, Mel sits down with Vanna Winters. Vanna is a contributor for The Mighty, NAMI, Thought Catalog, Project Heal, and Alliance for Eating Disorder Awareness. She chats with Mel about her personal mental health journey and new discovery of Ketamine Infusion Therapy. Social Media Link: www.instagram.com/vanna_writes Non-Profit Link: https://www.findedhelp.com

Ep 8 - In this show, Crystal, Laci and Ellen are joined by another Smart Momma, Doctor Angela Jones, an anesthesiologist and provider at a ketamine clinic and an expert in its many uses of ketamine infusion therapy. Listen to her walk through the ins and outs of a ketamine practice, ketamine’s advantages in dealing with depression and its treatment of mental psychosis, and how the drug is controlled and regulated. Learn more about the center where Doctor Jones provides ketamine to her patience here, plus additional resources on depression management and suicide prevention: https://www.delawarevalleywellnesscenter.comIf you are a CRNA Mom and have yet to join our CRNA Mom Facebook group, check out this link to learn more. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1633304636922285/LISTEN, SHARE and RATE the show on Apple Podcast our wherever you listen to your favorite podcast content https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scrub-caps-sippy-cups/id1482999433And Follow us on Instagram & Twitter @heysmartmommas

Many people only know about Ketamine as a club drug, but its medicinal uses go back over 50 years. Now it's being used to help with treatment resistant depression, OCD, and other issues that have been nonresponsive to other treatments, and with great success! Dr. Jeffrey Ditzell joins us to explain how and why this treatment works.

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Steven L. Mandel, M.D. is founder and president of Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles, the leading provider of Ketamine Infusion Therapy, and the first and only clinic to be accredited by AAAASF. He has personally administered more than 6,000 infusions since opening Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles in 2014, and has grown a compassionate team of eight, comprised of administrative support and medical providers. Dr. Mandel took the time to share some of his knowledge and experience with Mark Alyn, so listen in and learn about the treatment that Cleveland Clinic listed as one of the top 10 medical innovations of 2017!

Steven L. Mandel, M.D. is founder and president of Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles, the leading provider of Ketamine Infusion Therapy, and the first and only clinic to be accredited by AAAASF. He has personally administered more than 6,000 infusions since opening Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles in 2014, and has grown a compassionate team of eight, comprised of administrative support and medical providers. Dr. Mandel took the time to share some of his knowledge and experience with Mark Alyn, so listen in and learn about the treatment that Cleveland Clinic listed as one of the top 10 medical innovations of 2017!

Steven L. Mandel, M.D. is founder and president of Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles, the leading provider of Ketamine Infusion Therapy, and the first and only clinic to be accredited by AAAASF. He has personally administered more than 6,000 infusions since opening Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles in 2014, and has grown a compassionate team of eight, comprised of administrative support and medical providers. Dr. Mandel took the time to share some of his knowledge and experience with Mark Alyn, so listen in and learn about the treatment that Cleveland Clinic listed as one of the top 10 medical innovations of 2017!

Steven L. Mandel, M.D. is founder and president of Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles, the leading provider of Ketamine Infusion Therapy, and the first and only clinic to be accredited by AAAASF. He has personally administered more than 6,000 infusions since opening Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles in 2014, and has grown a compassionate team of eight, comprised of administrative support and medical providers. Dr. Mandel took the time to share some of his knowledge and experience with Mark Alyn, so listen in and learn about the treatment that Cleveland Clinic listed as one of the top 10 medical innovations of 2017!

Steven L Mandel M.D. is the founder of Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles. He has spoken at many national conferences on the topic of ketamine therapy and has been featured on hit TV shows such as “The Doctors” and “PBS Studios”(clips can be found on our website). We’ve also been featured in Wired Magazine, Anesthesiology News, Yahoo News, LA Magazine and other publications. The Cleveland Clinic unveiled the top 10 medical innovations most likely to be game changers in 2017, and Ketamine Infusion Therapy for depression was #7! Thank you so much for your interest in this show of Exploring Mind and Body, if you haven’t done so already please take a moment and leave a quick rating and review of the show in iTunes by clicking below. It will keep us delivering valuable content each week and give others an opportunity to find the show as well. Click here to subscribe via iTunes (and or leave a rating)