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 ...

Ketamine carries risks, say researchers. Yet for some patients, it's "the only thing that works." At the Ketamine Clinic for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr Juruena says it can also be given through an injection, a nasal spray or as a capsule. Experts say the dosage of ketamine given in infusion treatment has to be of a precise and small amount to ...

WHILE KETAMINE OFTEN comes up in conversations about psychedelic medicine, technically it’s part of a class of drugs called “dissociative anesthetics.” It’s sometimes used as a “pre-anesthetic” prior ...