Safety and tolerability of intramuscular and sublingual ketamine for psychiatric treatment in the Roots To Thrive ketamine-assisted therapy program: a retrospective chart review.

"The authors declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Dr Vivian WL Tsang is the Executive Chair of the Board of Directors of Qi Integrated Health, which offers a ketamine-assisted therapy program. She is also the Research Lead at the non-profit clinic Roots To Thrive and Adjunct Professor at Vancouver Island University. She is supported through a MITACS grant through Vancouver Island University. Brendan Tao declares no conflicts of interest. Dr Shannon Dames serves as the Chair for the Psychedelic-assisted Therapy Graduate Certificate program at Vancouver Island University, and as a professor in nursing. Her role with Roots To Thrive is to oversee the Research and Development components of the program, which is supported through Vancouver Island university, a grant provided by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research/Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation, the Roots To Thrive Society for Psychedelic Therapy, and volunteer hours. Dr Zachary Walsh is in a paid advisory relationship with Numinus Wellness and EntheoTech BioMedical regarding the medical development of psychedelics and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Canada and MycoMedica Life Sciences. Dr Pamela Kryskow is the medical lead of the RTT program. She is a volunteer board member of Roots To Thrive Nonprofit and for the Psychedelic Association of Canada Nonprofit. She is a clinical advisor to Numinus Wellness. Also, she is a volunteer advisor to Nectara and a co-founder and medical advisor to Mycomedica Life Sciences Canada. The Roots To Thrive program is a non-profit organization that uses a community of practice model for group therapy programs, with additional paid options for ketamine-assisted group therapy."

"Funding: The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article."