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Safe does not mean effective at treating depression. I personally cannot imagine daily ketamine use to help depression, similar to how daily benzodiazepines are no longer used for depression or PTSD, as studies have shown they are just as, if not more likely, to worsen symptoms.
Correct they should be used as an adjunct therapy to buy the patient temporary relief and the mental space to move forward while actively working to form new sustainable behavior patterns and learning skills to cope with intrusive thoughts and triggering situations.
I believe this is also true of most SSRIs but that will probably be a controversial opinion, since those drugs do not work on the correct timescales to be used effectively for that sort of treatment given the ramp-up and taper-off requirements and general roulette wheel of finding one that "works" for the patient.
Edit: And this is really the crux of why the service Corgi has found is highly suspicious. Without offering therapy, just meds, they are not on some well meaning hippocratic oath keeping mission. It's a loophole exploit.