Hi FebruaryMarie
I hope you and your son are doing okay. I have just been on the Famanon site and read the open letter to family. I find it helpful, it reminds me of everything I get wrong and how to try and do things differently.
You mentioned Ketamine, I know a little but not much. Its a psychedelic which is popular as a party drug, my son used it to put himself to sleep during heroin withdrawal. It is addictive and illegal to take recreationally in the UK, but it does look like there have been positive results from small medical trials using it to reduce alcohol abuse. It did say the trial involved heavy drinkers but not drinkers that are in treatment for alcoholism. You can google it and read for yourself but it seemed to be saying they were given a one-off or very few doses of it and that those in the trial that had been given ketamine reduced their drinking over a period of weeks by themselves. The researchers say that there needs to be further trials with more people being studied. It’s probably something to keep your eye on. There is a lot of work at the moment around psychedelics and ptsd/depression. In other countries it’s a legitimate treatment for getting off opiates, but has to be administered by an accredited clinic. My son looked at ibogaine treatment but his liver function test wasn’t good enough for him to be accepted for treatment in Portugal. I’m not sure how psychedelics work with addiction, maybe they shake up compulsive behaviour.
I wrote another post to you last night which didn’t make it on to the site, probably because I included links to the research.