Media
Interviews, podcasts, conference recordings, and press coverage spanning my work in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
Ketaminbehandling - Mer enn bare medisinen: Et dypdykk i behandlingsformen for psyken m/ Lowan Stewart & Vilde Krum Dahl
Norwegian-language conversation on what ketamine is, its decades of use in medicine, and how it is combined with psychotherapy in the treatment of depression and anxiety. Joined by producer Vilde Krum Dahl, who shares her own experience of the treatment.
Paving the Way with Ketamine in Norway
Short interview clip from Drugreporter's documentary on PAREA's European Forum of National Psychedelic Societies in Brussels, May 2026. Lowan Stewart, co-founder of the Norwegian Association for Psychedelic Science, on how Norway established public ketamine treatment.
Nytt verktøy i kampen mot selvmord
Feature on ketamine being approved as public treatment for acute suicidality in Norway, told through one patient's course of treatment. Lowan Stewart is interviewed. Paywalled.

What It Takes to Be the First: Building a Ketamine Practice in a Resistant Healthcare System
Podcast conversation on Lowan Stewart's path from emergency medicine to founding a ketamine clinic in New Mexico in 2016, expanding to Norway in 2018, and the work behind Norway becoming the first country to approve national public reimbursement for off-label ketamine treatment.
Hvordan formidle om nye behandlingsmetoder
Op-ed co-authored by Lowan Stewart and Lars Lien on how to communicate responsibly about new treatments such as ketamine for treatment-resistant depression, and the role of patient narratives alongside clinical evidence.
Kommersiell romfart gjør rommet tilgjengelig for flere
Op-ed co-authored by Lowan Stewart on how commercial spaceflight is widening access to space, written in his capacity as a board member of the Norwegian Space Medicine Association.
Is At-Home, Extended-Release Ketamine Coming to Market Soon?
News feature in which Lowan Stewart comments on KET01, an oral extended-release ketamine formulation in development for treatment-resistant depression, and the potential of at-home maintenance dosing to broaden access.
Norway becomes the first country to publicly fund generic ketamine for depression
Signed article by Lowan Stewart on Norway becoming the first country to introduce public reimbursement for generic ketamine in treatment-resistant depression, and how a coordinated public treatment model combining medication and psychotherapy was built.
Ketamine: The Psychedelic Elephant in the Room
Off-label ketamine for treatment resistant depression
Commentary on Norway becoming the first country to approve national public reimbursement for off-label ketamine treatment.

Borealis 2025: Lowan Stewart

Ketamin, spiseforstyrrelser og psykiske lidelser
Conversation on ketamine's emerging role in treating eating disorders and other mental health conditions.
Milepæl i depresjonsbehandling

Norway sets precedent on national reimbursement of generic ketamine for depression

Norske sjukehus innfører ketamin til behandling mot depresjon
Først i verden: Psykedelisk medisin godkjent i Norge

SUS tester ketamin mot alvorlig depresjon
Feature on Stavanger University Hospital's clinical trial of ketamine for severe depression. Lowan Stewart is interviewed on how ketamine treatment is delivered in Norway. Paywalled.
#62 Dr. Lowan Stewart: Ketamine and Ketamine assisted psychotherapy

Ketamin: Dyrt, lovende - og helt grusomt?

#34 Ketamin 2.0 The future of mental health
050 - Lowan H Stewart

Ketamin-behandling ble redningen for Kenneth
Episode 72: Lowan H Stewart. Psychedelic therapy.

Behandler deprimerte med ketamin: Forstår at det finnes en viss skepsis
Tilgivelsesreisen
Portrait piece featuring Lowan on ketamine treatment, quality of life, and building new clinical infrastructure in Norway.
Ny behandling tilbys i Trondheim: Har skapt en farsott

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for alcohol use disorder and other addictions
Q&A-panel with Norwegian Psychedelic Therapists and Scientists
Psykedelisk behandling mot depresjon: Pasienter kommer fra alle kanter av landet
Omstridt ketamin-behandling reddet livet til Andrea (32)
Ketamine for the treatment of substance use disorders (NPSC 2022)
#18 Ketamine
Ketamin - Fight fire with fire
#52 Lowan H Stewart: Psychedelics, A Game Changer In Mental Health

#84 Ketamine-Iboga Connection - NMDA - Lowan H. Stewart

Dop i møblerte hjem (Norge bak fasaden S02E06)
Documentary exploring the line between drugs and medicine in Norway. Features Lowan on ketamine treatment.
Kalnes først i landet til å bruke narkosemiddel mot depresjon
Ny behandlingsmetode mot depresjon
Magiske kurer mot depresjon

Ketamine for Depression and Reconnection
Ketamin er et lovende anestesimiddel for depresjon
Op-ed responding to criticism of ketamine treatment, co-authored with Andreas Wahl Blomkvist.
Liveopptak: Psykedelisk renessanse med Lowan Stewart, Ivar Goksøyr og Bjørn Grinde

Ketamine: Treating depression and addiction (Nordic Reform Conference 2019)
Ketamin er et trygt og lovende alternativ for alvorlig deprimerte pasienter
Op-ed on ketamine as a safe and promising alternative for patients with severe depression.










