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Lara Goldstein

Can Ketamine Treat Alcohol Addiction? This Is How Therapy Actually Functions

(Part two of a four-part series, see part one here)

Dr. Ben Sessa, cofounder and head of psychedelic medicine at Awakn Life Sciences (OTC:AWKNF) explained that scientific evidence shows ketamine creates neurogenesis: “You actually have growth of nervous tissue. You can demonstrate this with a slice of nervous tissue in a Petri dish bathed in ketamine, you look at it under a microscope and you actually see new dendrites appearing –which are the connections between nerve cells.”

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