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Dana Whitlock, MSc

Health editor
Dana has covered mental health services and drug regulation for a decade, with a particular interest in how treatments move from trial evidence into commercial practice. Reporting here is built on published trial data, regulatory filings and pricing collected directly from clinics rather than from press material.
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Cost and access What ketamine therapy actually costs in 2026, and why nobody publishes the number A six-session induction runs somewhere between two and five thousand dollars before maintenance. Here is where that number … 2,576 words
Choosing a clinic The credential question: anaesthesiologist, psychiatrist, or both Two clinicians offering the same infusion are often running quite different programmes around it. The difference is not … 2,527 words
Treatment experience What actually happens during a ketamine infusion, minute by minute Dissociation, nausea, a blood pressure cuff and a two-hour visit. Knowing the shape of it in advance changes … 2,590 words
Regulation and safety Ketamine is Schedule III. Here is what that means in practice Controlled substance status shapes how every legitimate programme is structured, and the absence of that structure is the … 2,740 words
Choosing a clinic Who is actually a candidate for ketamine treatment, and who is being sold it anyway The trial evidence covers a narrower population than the advertising implies. That gap is where most of the … 2,694 words
Evidence and research Ketamine and suicidal ideation: what the evidence supports and what it does not Rapid reduction in acute ideation is a distinct research question from sustained treatment of depression, and the two … 2,739 words