Dr. Ragnar
Naltrexone for alcohol
Naltrexone is the medication that gets prescribed more than any other for alcohol use disorder in clinics that actually know what they're doing, and it's…
Mar 26, 2026
Prescription Education: Know What’s Actually in That Bottle
What Most People Don't Get ToldIf you have ever walked out of a fifteen minute med check with a new prescription and a printout from the pharmacy, you…
Mar 26, 2026
Seroquel (quetiapine)
Seroquel is the antipsychotic that gets prescribed for everything other than what it's actually approved for, and the off-label sleep use is the biggest…
Mar 24, 2026
Statins
Statins are cholesterol-lowering medications. More specifically, they lower LDL cholesterol by blocking HMG-CoA reductase, a liver enzyme involved in cholesterol production, and they’ve become one of the most…
Mar 24, 2026
Microdosing: what controlled trials actually show
The honest answer on microdosing is that the controlled trials don't show much, the open-label data shows a lot, and the difference between those two…
Mar 22, 2026
Ibogaine: Real Promise, Real Risk
Ibogaine might be the strangest substance in the whole psychedelic treatment conversation, because the promise is real and the risk is real and they sit…
Mar 21, 2026
Online ADHD clinics & the regulatory crackdown
Done and Cerebral are the two names everybody remembers from the great pandemic ADHD telehealth boom, and the story of what happened to them is most of…
Mar 20, 2026
Ayahuasca for Depression: Promising, Strange, and Still Early
Ayahuasca isn’t some shiny startup molecule that got cooked up in a lab last year. It’s an old Amazonian brew with a long ceremonial history, and now it…
Mar 18, 2026
Ketamine clinics: legit vs sketchy
The ketamine clinic boom of the last five years is two different things wearing one storefront.
Mar 18, 2026
Dextromethorphan for Depression: The Legal, Overlooked One
Dextromethorphan’s the weird one in this whole conversation because unlike MDMA or psilocybin or ayahuasca, it isn’t hiding behind a Schedule I wall. It’s been sitting on pharmacy…
Mar 16, 2026
TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation)
TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation, an in-office procedure where a magnetic coil sits against the side of your head and pulses a magnetic field into a…
Mar 16, 2026
EMDR
EMDR stands for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, which is a mouthful and also kind of misleading because the eye movements may not actually…
Mar 14, 2026