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Mike Dow

Mike Dow

American Politician

Oct 14, 2026

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61:17
Um, we-
61:18
we-You want to use the right medicine at the right dose in the right way with the right person, right? So somebody may be a great candidate for, um, i- ibogaine because they have, uh, uh, a heroin addiction, a heroin addiction, but then person two has a lot of cardiovascular, uh, disease risk, and even though they have the heroin addiction, they probably shouldn't do it because their, their cardiovascular disease risk, right? If you have a, a- an addiction to ketamine and you've been-- you used ketamine recreationally for two years, you probably should not [laughs]...
61:55
We would not give you ketamine for ketamine-assisted psychotherapy 'cause, because that was your drug of abuse.
62:01
And even though ketamine is not a highly addictive drug like heroin or cocaine, uh, it, it can have, it does...
62:08
The secondary receptor that it hits can have some addictive properties.
62:14
Again, not if you use it sparingly in the way that we use it.
62:19
When people go, uh, you know, obviously the drugs they use to put you under for surgeries, if this is your...
64:26
And I want people to kind of like, who don't know anything about this, like, Dr. Mike, what is, what is the, what is the prior work that you, that you recommend doing or that you do for a ketamine session in the post-work? What does that, what does that look like?

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