Men's Health Australia

KETAMINE NATION

WHEN BYRON MACLEAN was forced to retire from his police job in Nova Scotia for medical reasons last year, he saw a psychotherapist to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder from military duty in Afghanistan and time on the force. But after a while, talk therapy stopped working. His depression, anxiety and night terrors returned, straining his marriage. “I felt really stuck,” says MacLean, 43.

Then a military buddy told him about ketamine – the psychedelic drug that doctors have used for decades as an anesthetic and pain reliever and that has gained new popularity as a possible wonder drug for mood disorders. MacLean was initially scared it

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