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Ketamine



Ketamine is both a hallucinogen and a dissociative anesthetic used for humans and in veterinary medicine. In low doses, it has been prescribed as a painkiller and to treat burns, and it is also undergoing studies for use in severe depression. It is sold illegally on the streets as a powder similar to the drug PCP. Sometimes called “the date-rape drug,” the odorless and tasteless powder can be mixed into drinks without being detected and causes amnesia in the victim. Ketamine can cause dream-like states, detachment from reality, and hallucinations. Users describe sensations of floating and being outside their bodies. As with any hallucinogenic drug, it should only be used in a guided way under expert supervision.

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What Ketamine Actually Does to Your Brain

Ketamine, once known for its "club enhancing" effects, is now an FDA approved anti-depressant. Over four million Americans suffer from treatment-resistant depression. The new drug is a glimmer of hope for many.

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Ketamine for Depression

Given the unacceptably high rates of suffering, disability and premature death experienced by people with treatment-resistant depression and the surprisingly low rates of problems arising from the use of ketamine to treat the disorder, this is a therapy that all patients and their doctors should be...

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Nasal Spray vs. Iv Ketamine for Depression

The efficacy of two forms of ketamine treatments for depression is compared.

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Attack Survivor Calls Ketamine a ‘Miracle Medicine’

Is there a miracle drug out there for depression, anxiety and PTSD? One Houston woman says there is for her: Ketamine.

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The Ketamine Papers: Science, Therapy, and Transformation

The Ketamine Papers opens the door to a broad understanding of this medicine’s growing use in psychiatry and its decades of history providing transformative personal experiences.

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Ketamine May Help Treat MS-Related Fatigue, Small Pilot Trial Suggests

Low doses of the anesthetic ketamine could help treat fatigue in people with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to results from a small Phase 1/2 clinical trial.

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Ketamine, Glutamate, and the Future of Mood Disorders Therapeutics

In this webinar, Dr. Sanjay Mathew will review the history of ketamine for the treatment of serious depressive disorders and other similar treatments in development.

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Ketamine For Treatment-resistant Depression: The First Decade Of Progress

Also Issued Online. Includes Bibliographical References.

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I Took Ketamine for My Depression. Things Got Pretty Weird.

My first encounter with ketamine did not go well.

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The Varieties of Ketamine Experience - Phil Wolfson

The Varieties of Ketamine Experience Phil Wolfson, MD Abstract: Unprecedented recent interest has arisen in the dissociative anesthetic drug ketamine as a novel antidepressant presumably acting through synaptogenesis, NMDA antagonism, and glutamate pathways.

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