The Wild West of Ketamine Treatment

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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New developments in actor Matthew Perry’s death are shining a light on the ethics and efficacy of using ketamine as a therapeutic drug. To learn more about the promise and pitfalls of ketamine treatment, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta turns to David Feifel, one of the first clinicians in the country to use ketamine to specifically treat depression. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello Chasing Life listeners, we want to let you know that starting next week,
0:04.0	September 6th, new episodes will now be in your feed every Friday.
0:09.0	You know it was the sort of news as a journalist, you never want to report on.
0:15.0	Just into CNN, very sad news actor Matthew Perry has died at the age of 54,
0:21.0	the Los Angeles Times, quoting law enforcement sources, is reporting the
0:25.7	friend star was found dead today in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home.
0:31.9	Matthew Perry.
0:33.8	His death last fall was just such a gut punch, so heartbreaking on so many levels.
0:39.2	For so many of us he represented joy.
0:41.4	He represented comfort as Chandler Bing, the star character on friends.
0:45.3	I'm not great at the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?
0:52.0	I used to watch that show all the time and I was actually pretty amazed that my
0:56.4	teenage girls seemed to love that show as much as I did. Truly intergenerational.
1:01.5	We had so many fond memories together and I think it was
1:05.0	pretty jarring for us to realize that at the same time Perry was starring on
1:09.0	friends he was also really struggling with addiction.
1:12.8	He talked about this in a memoir that he wrote called Friends,
1:15.5	Lovers, and The Big Terrible Thing.
1:17.8	I was stunned to learn, for example, that he had attended
1:20.6	6,000 Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
1:23.8	He entered rehab 15 times.
1:26.5	And then one year after his memoir published,
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