"After the first treatment, I felt like that gaping wound was starting to heal up. It was like closing up and it wasn't sore anymore."
Once a club drug, Ketamine is increasingly used as an off-label treatment for depression and PTSD. A clutch of clinics have sprung up in Los Angeles, but with treatment not covered by insurance and few ways to profit from its development, companies are studying its effects and looking to the next big psychedelic drug. Reporter Keerthi Vendantam has the story.
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