Tag: ketamine

  • The Ketamine Kure Or “Here We Go Again!”

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    Just as opioids weren’t a cure all, ketamine isn’t a cure all. In 2019, s-ketamine was approved for treatment-resistant depression (FDA)…and a huge warning flag should have been flown. Ketamine had already been approved in 1970, but that was for its original use for humans: an anesthetic. And in its original form it has already…

  • Our Next New Drug Crisis

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    Ketamine has a long and storied history. Developed in the early 1960s as an anesthesia, it was deemed too dangerous for people due to its “intense, prolonged emergence delirium that ultimately made it undesirable for human use.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5126726/ More studies; more testing; and the end result — well, maybe not the END result, but the…