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‘The ketamine blew my mind’: can psychedelics cure addiction and depression? Words: Alexandra Jones Illustration: Frieda Ruh
In the summer of 1981, when he was 13, Grant crashed a trail motorbike into a wall at his parents’ house in Cambridgeshire. He’d been hiding it in the shed, but “it was far too powerful for me, and on my very first time starting it in the garden, I smashed it into a wall”. His mother came outside to find the skinny teenager in a heap next to the crumpled motorbike. “I was in a lot of trouble.”
Grant hadn’t given this childhood memory much thought in the intervening years, but one hot August day in 2019, it came back to him with such clarity that, at 53, now a stocky father of two, he suddenly understood it as a clue to his dangerously unhealthy relationship with alcohol.
âThe ketamine blew my mindâ: can psychedelics cure addiction and depression?
âWe prepare a client for their drug experience; allow them to feel safe and warm.â Illustration: Frieda Ruh/The Guardian
âWe prepare a client for their drug experience; allow them to feel safe and warm.â Illustration: Frieda Ruh/The Guardian
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Sat 13 Mar 2021 06.00 EST
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In the summer of 1981, when he was 13, Grant crashed a trail motorbike into a wall at his parentsâ house in Cambridgeshire. Heâd been hiding it in the shed, but âit was far too powerful for me, and on my very first time starting it in the garden, I smashed it into a wallâ. His mother came outside to find the skinny teenager in a heap next to the crumpled motorbike. âI was in a lot o