(Getty Images) Elon Musk said in a March 2024 interview that he takes ketamine to treat depression. He claimed to have a doctor’s prescription for the drug.
How often, or under what circumstances, he uses ketamine as of early 2025 was unknown.
We reached out to representatives of Musk for more information, and we’re waiting for a response.
Musk and his attorney have said he’s required to take routine drug tests for his jobs.
As Elon Musk’s influence on American politics has grown, so has a rumor that he uses ketamine — a powerful, dissociative anesthetic that, in recent years, doctors have been prescribing as a treatment for mood disorders .
Social media users on platforms such as X ( archived ), Instagram and Reddit made the accusation about Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, founder of SpaceX and owner of X — with one person saying he takes the drug to "boost performance."
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Musk himself said he uses the drug in a March 2024 interview , and he’s frequently posted about it on X generally over the years.We reached out to representatives of Musk to elaborate on his ketamine use, as well as to respond to reports about his relationship to drugs affecting his behavior in work settings. We have not received a response, though we will update this report when, or if, we do.In other words, the details of Musk’s ketamine use as of this writing were unknown, including how often (if at all anymore), under what circumstances exactly and via what method (spray, powder, liquid injection, etc.) he takes the drug.While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ketamine as an anesthetic, it has only OK’d esketamine — a molecule that is a mirror image of ketamine — for treatment-resistant depression. Esketamine comes as a nasal spray. But ketamine, used off-label for depression, can be injected intravenously or intramuscularly under medical supervision, taken sublingually in lozenges without swallowing, or administered nasally via a spray. Recreational users or addicts often opt for snorting […]
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