Ketamine has a reputation as a party drug but is licensed as an anaesthetic. The study found use of the drug via a nasal spray led to "significant" improvements in depressive symptoms in the first ...

But before that she takes a ketamine nasal spray — a drug she says helps manage her treatment-resistant depression. "You feel quite funny, sort of out of your body for a little while," Ms Neale ...

The FDA added a warning to the label of esketamine nasal spray (Spravato), noting that long-term cognitive and memory ...

A watershed moment came in March when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Spravato, or esketamine, a ketamine nasal spray for adults with treatment-resistant major depression.

The FDA has approved Janssen’s antidepressant nasal spray Spravato ... The drug is the first ketamine-based medicine approved to treat depression. Ketamine has long been seen as a potential ...

Using an old anesthesia drug to pull people out of the depths of severe depression has gone from fringe idea to widespread use in just a few years. Sparked by promising studies and stories of ...

A new tablet form of ketamine has shown promise in treating ... led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators showed that a nasal spray that patients administer at home, without a physician ...

We also sometimes prescribe patients over-the-counter ketamine, which they can take at home as a nasal spray in smaller doses. I've had a few people start craving the spray and taking more than ...