IN a typical week, Grant would knock back six bottles of red wine and, at the weekend, a litre of vodka – that is, until he tried ketamine.

“It was truly profound,” he recalls of his experience with the powerful anaesthetic, which he claims cured him of his alcoholism.

Even though there is a can of beer in his fridge and some fancy spirits in the cupboard, the 58-year-old insists he will never touch them.

The events manager, from Somerset, tells Sun Health: “I don’t even think of myself as being in recovery because the urge to drink is completely gone.”

And incredibly, he’s stayed sober without a single therapy session or support group since.

Typically, people think of ketamine as either a horse tranquilliser, medical anaesthetic or a party drug — nicknamed K, Special K and KitKat.

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