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Inside the Ketamine Crisis: Why Young Women Are Struggling With It

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Inside the Ketamine Crisis: Why Young Women Are Struggling With It

"She holds on to herself, tightly, leaning slightly forward, her arms wrapped around her lower body. Spidery lashes line her doe eyes, which meet mine as she talks, slowly and quietly, with long pauses between each sentence. It’s like her words and her memories are falling out of her head, lost somewhere, with little chance of grabbing them back."

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