The ketamine It has a wide range of uses. As a good hallucinogenic drug, it has been traditionally used with recreational purposes. However, some therapeutic effects have also been found, for example to treat diseases such as depression. Now, an American company has decided to unite what it considers to be the best of both worlds and launch ketamine withdrawalswith which they help through this drug to stressed businessmen and office workers.
If some companies have made mindfulness and group escape rooms fashionable to relax, undo friction and improve teamwork, now comes the use of ketamine to combat stressincrease originality and, why not?, promote a good coexistence between colleagues.
It sounds rather strange and it certainly is, but it has already become all the rage in Silicon Valley, according to what they say in Bloomberg. Now, does all this make sense? Are there risks in taking ketamine to improve at work? This is what we must take into account.
Ketamine withdrawals: what are they?
These ketamine retreats for stressed workers consist of 45 minute sessions in which each person lies on a yoga mat, blindfolded, and bares their arm so that an osteopathic doctor inject them with a dose of ketamine.
Here is the first thing that catches your eye. He is not a traditional doctor, but an osteopath. These specialists, who in Spain and many other countries are not considered doctors or health professionals, follow treatments without scientific evidence. Some treatments that, in addition, are usually focused on the bones, so it is surprising that in this case they dare with the mental health and the administration of a hallucinogenic drug such as ketamine.
Participants are warned that in those 45 minutes they will feel out of his body, but do not feel fear, because that is what relaxation is about. In addition, they are given a guided meditation, which supposedly helps them relax, separate the professional from the personal, and relate better at work.
unwanted effects
Today ketamine is the target of study by many scientists for the treatment of various mental conditions, such as depression. It has even been seen that hallucinogenic drugs can be very useful, along with psychological therapy, to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. This is so because, roughly speaking, you can access the patient’s mind and, once inside, look for that painful memory and start the therapy.
But all this is still under investigation. some have been made clinical trials, but always hand in hand with psychologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists. An osteopath does not have the necessary knowledge to carry out this treatment, much less in a generalized way, without considering case by case.
And we must not forget that ketamine it also has worrisome side effects. In high doses it can cause unconsciousness, seizures, strokes, suffocation and even cardiac arrest. It is true that in these withdrawals they control the dose, but if several are done in a row it can be dangerous. Furthermore, it cannot be ruled out that get addicted that the people who profit from it are very good, but it can be very dangerous for consumers. In fact, they may no longer resort only to ketamine withdrawals, but instead seek other drugs of more uncertain origin to have that very spiritual experience.
Therefore, if the working conditions are not the best, it will always be much more appropriate to resort to a sindicate than ketamine. It doesn’t matter how much they talk about it in Silicon Valley.