Casey was unaware of the risks of ketamine until she was left in crippling pain (Supplied) Lee Fernandes, lead therapist at ...

In recent years, ketamine - a drug once confined to the domains of anesthesia and veterinary medicine - has surged into ...

Ruberry said that patients who undergo ketamine-assisted therapy are typically at low risk for addiction and are screened beforehand. They won't be offered treatment if they're considered high ...

Following the arrests made in connection to Perry’s death, in an interview where CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan likened ketamine abuse to the beginnings of the opioid epidemic, DEA ...

This, combined with data on psychiatric treatment outcome mediators ... The utilisation of ketamine-based treatments is limited by concerns about its potent psychoactive effects and addiction ...

Traditional antidepressants take months to kick in, which increases the risk for some patients to act on suicidal thoughts during the initial period of treatment. Ketamine provides almost instant ...

For Torrance, reclassifying ketamine isn’t the answer, but rather focusing on re-education and collecting good data about the addiction. ‘There isn’t openly available data on the treatment ...

According to an article in the June 2022 issue of Psychiatry Research, "Replicated clinical trials have demonstrated rapid and robust antidepressant effects with ketamine in treatment-resistant ...

Emily was in the grips of ketamine addiction. Four years before ... The number of adults undergoing treatment for ketamine-related issues has more than doubled from pre-pandemic levels, increasing ...