Ketamine can trigger symptoms similar to those of schizophrenia, but it isn’t known to cause the disorder itself. Ketamine is gaining attention for its potential to treat depression and other ...

This week, the Food and Drug Administration approved Johnson & Johnson’s ketamine-based nasal spray, Spravato, as a standalone therapy for cases of depression that haven’t responded to other ...

Jeff Winograd, who's lived with depression for more than 25 years, says ketamine treatment saved his life. Jeff Winograd couldn’t get off his couch. He’d hit rock bottom with the depression he ...

Elon Musk said in a March 2024 interview that he takes ketamine to treat depression. He claimed to have a doctor's prescription for the drug. How often, or under what circumstances, he uses ketamine ...

Recreational ketamine use has increased in the United States in recent years, outpacing its rise as a treatment for depression, a new analysis suggests. The hallucinogenic drug — a controlled ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — In recent years, ketamine — long known for its misuse as a psychedelic party drug — has become a “life-saving” medicine for people battling major depression. Patients ...

The mother of a teenager who died after taking ketamine on her first day at Newcastle University has welcomed calls to upgrade the drug to class A. Jeni Larmour, 18, from Newtonhamilton ...

Musk also regularly doses on ketamine. NYT calls ketamine a “life-changing psychedelic drug” used “for when life is ending.” Musk, whose life is not ending anytime soon, uses ketamine to ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Ketamine was previously reclassified from class C to class B in 2014, and since then, the number of users has continued to rise. The most recent ...

Recreational ketamine use has local researchers sounding the alarm. Dr. Philip Botkiss is the medical director of the West Coast Ketamine Center. He says he's seen a good response from patients ...

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) can encompass many different things. Treatment settings can range from exotic, remote locations (as per a ketamine retreat) to the more mundane, like a ...