This was a licensed esketamine (s-ketamine) trial under medical supervision which, as you might imagine, left us excluded from the trial afterwards.
So I am going to have to disagree with you regarding whether or not that is possible at theraputic doses. I realize that it's normally safe, and I hope that it helps a lot of people.
Do you feel like the experts are being disingenuous with the safety of this drug? I am not taking sides here - I am genuinely curious of your opinion since you seem to know something others don't.
There's a growing trend of clinics prescribing take-home lozenges. Some of them are giving patients 30 or more lozenges at a time, with the expectation that they'll use them once or twice a week.
Of course, some patients take multiple doses at once. Browsing subreddits on the topic shows plenty of stories of people escalating their doses or asking for strategies to convince their doctors to prescribe more.
Unfortunately, I think it's going to get worse before it gets better. Too many unscrupulous doctors are realizing the profit potential for dispensing Ketamine prescriptions in exchange for $300, 20-minute telehealth visits.
I'd be suspicious of those who wanted more and more of the drug. It made her so dizzy and sick there's no way she'd want more.
I almost wonder if you can detect who is abusing it by how much they enjoy it...
Ketamine clinics use doses much lower than that which is used for general anesthesia, and ketamine is used for general anesthesia all over the world on a daily basis. It's on the World Health Organization's Essential Medicines List and has a very safe 50+ year track record.