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AOC spends $19K in campaign cash on psychiatrist known for ketamine therapy
The New York Post ^ | 03/21/2026 | Gabrielle Fahmy

Posted on 03/21/2026 4:01:54 PM PDT by thegagline

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spent nearly $19,000 in campaign cash last year on a shrink who specializes in controversial ketamine therapy. The socialist lawmaker hired Boston-based Dr. Brian Boyle, the chief psychiatric officer at Stella, a chain of mental health clinics focusing on “novel” therapies popular with Hollywood and Wall Street.

Her campaign paid Boyle $11,550 in March 2025, another $2,800 in May, and $4,375 in October for a total of $18,725, Federal Election Commission records show.

The expenses were marked as “leadership training and consulting.”

It’s unclear what the sessions consisted of or who participated. Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

Boyle, a Harvard-trained doctor, calls himself an “interventional psychiatrist” and specializes in unorthodox methods for treatment-resistant depression, PTSD and anxiety.

He’s considered a “leading authority” on ketamine, the controversial horse tranquilizer given to “Friends” star Matthew Perry in the month leading up to his tragic death. ***

The “Squad” rep, who campaigned to end the federal prohibition of marijuana in 2018, has three times proposed legislation to make it easier to study magic mushrooms and other psychedelics.

As a freshman congresswoman in 2019, she introduced an amendment to allow the feds to spend taxpayer money on studying the medical potential of psilocybin, ecstasy and other drugs to treat mental illnesses, calling the early research “promising.”

“It’s well past time we take drug use out of criminal consideration and into medical consideration,” she tweeted at the time.

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KEYWORDS: catkiller; ketamine; ketaminetherapy; khole; sowhat; specialk; vitamink

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Cognitive difficulties ✅

Sedation ✅

Agitation ✅

Amnesia ✅

The inability to think clearly ✅✅✅

1 posted on 03/21/2026 4:01:54 PM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

Money wasted. No discernable change noted in her conduct.


2 posted on 03/21/2026 4:04:45 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: thegagline

So she’s a drug addict. Anybody surprised?
Thinks she’s a rock star….delusional.


3 posted on 03/21/2026 4:08:33 PM PDT by Donbue
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To: thegagline

ketamine, the controversial horse tranquilizer

4 posted on 03/21/2026 4:11:57 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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That reminds me, I just got depression, PTSD and anxiety.


5 posted on 03/21/2026 4:12:25 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: thegagline

How do politicians get away with spending campaign money on things such as this?


6 posted on 03/21/2026 4:12:51 PM PDT by CFW
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To: thegagline
Once again...


7 posted on 03/21/2026 4:15:33 PM PDT by xp38
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To: ClearCase_guy

Thanks. A gag that wrote itself but needed those photos.

Now we know why AOC is said to munch on carrots, sugar cubes and hay.


8 posted on 03/21/2026 4:17:25 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: thegagline

Sheesh, she’s nuts.


9 posted on 03/21/2026 4:17:29 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: thegagline

That phony sounding therapy from the psychiatrist sounds like a lead-in to a scam on Law and Order SVU. Let Det. Terry Bruno and Ice-T rough him up a little.

SVU, season 21 episode “We Dream of Machine Elves,” Detective Amanda Rollins goes undercover by joining a spiritual/psychology group led by a suspicious professor, played by Adam Arkin. She poses as a vulnerable student to gather information on the professor, who is suspected of drugging and assaulting tourists.
IMDb


10 posted on 03/21/2026 4:23:29 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: xp38

She is Godless, and so prone to mental illness. This, I think, is the principal cause of the wild irrationality and anger of the Left. The unresolved guilt they carry around with them is exhausting and destructive; their conduct follows accordingly.


11 posted on 03/21/2026 4:23:43 PM PDT by drwoof
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To: thegagline

If laudanum were still in vogue, she would probably consume it by the case.


12 posted on 03/21/2026 4:26:42 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: thegagline

A bartender... and Ketamine. There’s a combo...


13 posted on 03/21/2026 4:28:45 PM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: thegagline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm51ihfi1p4

She wants to be sedated...


14 posted on 03/21/2026 4:30:22 PM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: thegagline

TDS


15 posted on 03/21/2026 4:33:30 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: rktman

She is crazy, but will psychotherapy do any good? I doubt it.


16 posted on 03/21/2026 4:34:10 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: thegagline

Can she legally use campaign money for that?


17 posted on 03/21/2026 4:40:58 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: ClearCase_guy

She has been heard saying, “W-i-l-b-u-r!!!”


18 posted on 03/21/2026 4:41:10 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn (ITHIN A FEW DAIS)
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To: MtnClimber

No known treatment for terminal TDS.


19 posted on 03/21/2026 4:42:32 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: DesertRhino

Thanks. The Ramones were awesome in their own particular way. Two Tons of Steel from Texas, often plays this song at Gruene Hall


20 posted on 03/21/2026 4:43:04 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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