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06/11/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Ketamine seen as “fast-acting” for those who suffer from depression

Ketamine started out as an anesthetic for surgeries, only to quickly get abused as a hallucinogenic party drug. Now a U.S. study is claiming it can serve as a “fast-acting” treatment for people afflicted with clinical depression, an article from the BBC reported. The researchers administered ketamine to participants via nasal spray. It claimed that volunteers with symptoms […]

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