Inside STAT: As ketamine clinics spread, so do start-your-own-business courses, sparking concern

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Ketamine clinics are popping up around the country, offering a drug originally used as an anesthetic as an experimental therapy for depression, anxiety, and a slew of other conditions. A sign of that boom: training centers teaching everyone from anesthesiologists to advanced practice nurses how to set up their own ketamine clinics. But some mental health experts say there isn't enough known yet about ketamine’s value as a psychiatric treatment to offer such training. “If I thought there was a standard protocol … then I think [training] could be very useful. But I’m not sure we have that yet,” said Yale's Dr. Gerard Sanacora. STAT's Megan Thielking has more here.