Dr. Chantelle Thomas

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RECOVERable: Mental Health and Addiction Experts Answer Your Questions · Ketamine and MDMA: Can Alternative Treatments Improve Mental Health? · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

For example, an infusion clinic that is looking to just get basic medical clearance.

And then they're thinking about mechanistically what's happening there is giving your brain the opportunity to interact with the subject, not the subjective effects, but the neurochemical effects of the drug.

And they're not really focusing at all on the subjective effects or the therapeutic process.

There's very specific ways to administer ketamine that are more subjective.

Supported by research in terms of dosage and administration and how that happens.

Whereas in recreational settings, um, there are lots of routes of administration.

One of the most common is insulfation, so snorting ketamine.

And it's very hard to know what dosage that you're getting or what's happening or how pure that compound is.

So there's obvious differentiators there.

Myth or fact, ketamine is FDA approved for

That is true.

Um, and the the formulation of ketamine that's been approved for depression treatment is called spravato.

And that's a Jansen and Jansen product.

Um, and it's a nasal spray, actually, that has a um a whole series of what we call REM, so risk mitigating um factors that actually uh enhance the safety profile of that drug.

That is true.

Yes, there's more to that story.

But it is absolutely true.

When Alton, when it came down to the FDA approval process for MDMA, they actually declined to approve MDMA and they asked for a specific um, they actually put out a review letter um that asked for a number of things to be met before they would consider approving it officially.

Mm, disagree that they're not just for people who've run out of options.

I will say though

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