Haute drugs hook Hamps

Originally published in Page Six

Hamptons elites — many of whom have been boasting about not-so-secret Ozempic use — are now onto the next hot drug: horse tranquilizer. According to a new Avenue magazine article, “Mind- Altering Substances Are the Chic New Trend in the Hamptons,” the rich are now doing doctor-assisted ketamine, once known in the clubs as special K, which can be used for mental health purposes.

Dr. Lea Lis, who runs the Hampton Insight Institute in Southampton, “offers comprehensive assessments and guided spiritual journeys, in addition to professional psychotherapy,” says the mag. Through six sessions in which the patient lies in a chair and a soundproof room, Lis claims the treatment relieves trauma. She says it also allows a person to “drop your ego and can really see where your adopted ideas have come from. The process rewires the brain to believe that anything is possible.”

Therapeutic ketamine can help with depression, anxiety, PTSD, and eating disorders, reports the Washington post. It’s not FDA-approved. Other hot New Age therapies out East this summer are more run-of-the-mill and range from “sage-smudging” and meditation to THC gummies, and microdoses of mushrooms.