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 ...

Right now Ketamine is not FDA approved to treat any psychiatric disorder. But back inJuly, Johnson and Johnson did seek approval for a nasal Ketamine spray, that is currently in waiting.