PT373 – Dr. Ben Medrano – Integrative Psychiatry & The Safety of At-Home Ketamine
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, David interviews Co-Medical Director of Nue Life, Dr. Ben Medrano. He discusses the risks, safety, and efficacy of at-home ketamine, Nue Life's recent study in Frontiers, and Nue Life's Nue Care program.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome to psychedelics today. |
| 0:12.9 | Lovely having you here, it's David Drapkin. |
| 0:15.1 | It's been a little while since I've been behind the mic, so great to be back. |
| 0:19.3 | Today the conversation is with Dr. Ben Madrano. He's the |
| 0:23.2 | medical director at New Life Medical Group. We met a couple years ago, and he's a really nice guy. |
| 0:31.1 | Lovy to chat about his personal experiences of kind of growing up in the Midwest and Buddhism |
| 0:37.1 | and rave music, |
| 0:38.7 | and then to kind of take that through New York City working for an act team, |
| 0:43.5 | which I had a lot of collaborations with when I used to work at a psychiatric hospital in Manhattan. |
| 0:48.5 | And then, yeah, now through Field Trip and his company, New Life where he's at right now, |
| 0:53.4 | and the work they're doing around |
| 0:54.5 | at home ketamine therapy. Amazing experiences that he talks about some of the clients' journeys |
| 1:02.8 | and experiences. And, you know, answers the question, are ketamine therapy protocols |
| 1:08.5 | safe for people to use at home? And some aren't, some are not. So obviously |
| 1:13.8 | wanting to really appreciate what makes new life so different. And I wanted to let you all know |
| 1:20.4 | if you like Ben and if you like Lynn Marie Morski, they are both working with their colleague |
| 1:26.6 | Lauren Marchefka with a webinar |
| 1:28.7 | with us on Thursday the 17th, 2 o'clock Eastern. And that's with the new life team. It's called |
| 1:35.2 | Empowering Patients with At Home Ketamine Therapy. So if you want to check that out, go to our main |
| 1:40.2 | website, psychedelics.com slash events. All right. enjoy the show, everyone, and I'll see you on |
| 1:47.6 | the other side. All right, welcome everybody to Psychedelic Today. It's David here talking to |
| 1:57.5 | Ben Madrano of New Life, and I'm really excited to have this chat because we've had a |
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