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Celebs Who Have Spoken About Ketamine Use: Matthew Perry, More


Celebrities like Chrissy Teigen and Matthew Perry have been open about using ketamine for their mental health – here's what they've said

It has been used as a party drug for decades but is an “approved medical product as an injectable, short-acting anesthetic for use in humans and animals and as a nasal spray (Spravato) for treatment-resistant depression,” per the DEA. “My point is, I think this is an incredibly important treatment to add to our armamentarium to fight severe mood disorders and psychiatric illnesses, but we have to use it responsibly and carefully,” Sanacora, a psychiatry professor at the Yale School of Medicine, said in December 2023. Dr. Grinspoon – a primary care physician and educator at Massachusetts General Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School – wrote about the pros and cons of ketamine use for “treatment-resistant depression” in February 2024.

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