10/03/2026
📺 Tune into The Spotlight Network with Emmy Award Winner, broadcaster and actor Logan Crawford (Blood Bloods, The Blacklist, Manifest, Bull, The Irishman, Marry Me, Three Women, The Big Short, Person of Interest, Gotham, The Following, Daredevil, Not Okay, The First Purge ).
🧠 Could ketamine fundamentally change the way severe depression is treated?
We're joined by Robert C. Hiemstra, M.D., author of KISSD 2: Ketamine Confidential. In this provocative examination of depression treatment, Dr. Hiemstra argues that psychiatry has been too slow to embrace ketamine and contrasts its potential with conventional antidepressant medications. Drawing parallels with controversial and sometimes harmful chapters in medical history, he challenges readers and the medical community to reconsider established approaches to treating depression.
💉 Central to the book is Dr. Hiemstra's advocacy for what he calls the KISSD process and his claim that ketamine can provide dramatic and sustained relief for many people suffering from depression. He questions the effectiveness of commonly prescribed SSRIs and SNRIs and argues for much broader access to ketamine treatment. These are the author's claims and perspectives; ketamine treatment has recognized clinical uses for depression, while specific effectiveness rates and treatment protocols remain matters requiring medical evidence and professional evaluation.
✨ Bold, confrontational, and intended to spark debate, KISSD 2: Ketamine Confidential asks important questions about medical innovation, established psychiatric practice, and what happens when emerging treatments challenge the status quo.
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