Understanding Musk’s Microdosing of Ketamine: What You Need to Know about Esketamine vs. “Special K”

2024-01-12 18:24:00

To be clear: there is taking ketamine and taking ketamine. What Musk says he is doing is microdosing ketamine. In other words, he ingests a very small amount of the substance. Moreover, the ketamine that we use as an antidepressant has a different composition than the so-called special K that is used in nightlife.

“What is prescribed in Belgium is not regular ketamine but esketamine, a variant that is administered in the form of a nasal spray, on the prescription of a psychiatrist and under controlled conditions,” says pharmacologist Dimitri De Mulder.