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Ketamine Addiction After One Therapeutic Dose: How Rare Is It?

Stylized illustration evoking the tension between ketamine's clinical promise for depression and its abuse liability, framed in muted rose and amber tones for the addiction topic.

Research Highlights One published case is not a base rate. Roelandt and colleagues (2026) describe a 25-year-old multimorbid patient who developed severe ketamine addiction after a single 75 mg intranasal sub-anesthetic dose given for acute suicidality. It is N = 1, but it is now the second published case after Bonnet 2015 of post-clinical-use ketamine …

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