Ketamine and Depression
Michael Fumento’s “Ketamine and Depression” at the American Spectator sounds like big news, and an interesting medical study. One injection of ketamine caused immediate (within hours) improvement in two thirds of severely depressed patients, and a third of them were better even after a week. The sample was tiny (17), but they first did a double-blind, with zero improvement in the placebo patients, and then reversed the roles, and found that thos same patients improved with the ketamine in the second round. Ketamine is a dangerous drug (euphoric and hallucogenic), but the results are remarkable. If true, why aren’t asylums rushing to use this? Or are they?