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The National Institute of Mental Health Highlights Ketamine for Depression

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) issued a highlight on ketamine for treating depression. The most commonly used antidepressants are largely variations on a theme; they increase the supply within synapses of a class of neurotransmitters believed to play a…

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IV Ketamine Shows Promise in Clinical Trial with Depressed Teens

Researchers from the University of Minnesota and The Mayo Clinic found that ketamine caused an average decrease of 42% on the Children’s Depression Rating Scale(CDRS)—the most widely used rating scale in research trials for assessing the severity of depression and…

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Yale study found no safety issues with long-term ketamine treatment

Researchers at Yale published a new study titled “Acute and Longer-Term Outcomes Using Ketamine as a Clinical Treatment at the Yale Psychiatric Hospital” in Clinical Psychiatry.  In late 2014, Yale began providing ketamine as an off-label therapy on a case-by-case…

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CNN Reports ‘Ketamine offers lifeline for suicidal thoughts’

CNN featured a segment on the use of ketamine for treating suicidal ideation–a novel, off-label use for ketamine that is currently being explored in human clinical trials.  The segment featured Dr. Sanjay Gupta sharing the story of Alan Ferguson.  Mr….

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Ketamine alone beats methadone and methadone/ketamine combo for neuropathic pain

Neuropathic pain is notoriously difficult to treat.  Patients are often treated as regular chronic pain patients and many resort to opioids to manage extreme levels of pain. Neuropathic pain can originate from infection, metabolic diseases, chemotherapy, trauma and many other…

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Ketamine is a new, faster option for treating PTSD

PTSD Treatment – Ketamine is a novel treatment for several psychiatric disorders including: Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Depression, Postpartum Depression, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.  It was originally FDA approved for anesthesia but is now frequently...
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New study will put ketamine against electroshock therapy in severely depressed patients

Depression affects approximately one in five Americans and while most people respond to antidepressant medications, 1/3 will not. However, emerging research and countless case studies have shown that intravenous (IV) Ketamine is an effective depression treatment.  This is a major…

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Ketamine: Reinventing Chronic Pain Management

Ketamine: Reinventing Chronic Pain Management Author: Jeannette Y. Wick, RPh, MBA, FASCP For patients who respond poorly or incompletely to opioids, ketamine may be the answer. In the middle of the past century, phencyclidine hydrochloride—called PCP or angel dust on...
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IV Ketamine Rapidly Effective in PTSD

IV Ketamine has shown to be rapidly effective in treating PTSD in a recent study conducted by Emory University. In the first day after treatment, mean scores on the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) fell to 14 from 46 at…

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Listen to NPR’s report on Ketamine’s use for treating depression

Lianne Milton/For NPR Chris Stephens, 28, has been battling depression all of his life. At times he wouldn’t get out of bed for weeks. In January, he said his depression hadn’t returned since he started taking ketamine. Chris Stephens, 28,…

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