Miguel Melendez

You're not impulsive.

The last thing you want with impulsive behaviors with somebody in addiction is to put them on testosterone.

That's insane.

Well,

Everybody knows it makes you feel really good as a man.

You're 60 years old.

Suddenly you feel 36.

Okay.

But it comes with the price of frustration and anger and really short tempers.

Add that to the impulsivity of substance use disorder.

And you could have, uh, you know, a dark rabbit hole, a hidden monster in the shadows.

And somebody who's not going to listen to somebody when they say, oh, you know, taking a few too many ketamine pills.

Ketamine spray is not something you do every day.

It's once or twice a month with counseling sessions.

What it is, is there is an insight issue that comes with substance use disorder.

And the only way you can rewire the brain, it's like rewiring a vacuum cleaner, rewiring a radio, or rewiring a power strip.

You rewire the brain, not by feeding

the body drugs just as a substitute, but in-depth therapy, making selections, looking at the trauma in your life, choosing not to be impulsive, choosing to process your stress.

You have to do that with another person face to face.

It's not always about the drugs.