Posted on 11/08/2023 11:37:34 AM PST by nickcarraway
The drug ketamine can reduce the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and symptoms of depression in patients as early as a day after injection. That is the key finding of my team’s new meta-analysis, just published in the journal Annals of Pharmacotherapy.
Ketamine is an anesthetic that is sometimes used as a substance of abuse but is increasingly being explored as a treatment for a range of mental health conditions.
We analyzed six randomized controlled trials representing 259 patients with moderate to severe PTSD. In all trials, about half were injected with ketamine. The rest received either salt water or the drug midazolam, a benzodiazepine like Xanax that is also used as an anesthetic agent. Patients receiving ketamine saw their PTSD symptoms reduced by about 25% both at one day and one week after therapy. But if patients received repeated injections over four weeks, PTSD symptoms declined by only 12%. Reduction of depression symptoms were more modest but still significant.
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Just another drug in paradise.
The latest “wonder drug.” With SSRIs and Antipsychotics thoroughly tied to mass murderers and suicides a new drug is needed to keep the mental health scam profitable.
Oh no
...this might force too many off disability.
Junk science.
Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic.
They don’t resolve problems. They block access and hide them.
ketamine can reduce the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and symptoms of depression
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I thought that was what Herion was for.
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Great! Add it to the water supply. /sarc
Want to improve Americans' mental health? Control Federal spending, stop the regulatory strangulation of the economy and set trade policy so that Americans can find steady jobs with good benefits.
You think you’re clever. None of that has the slightest thing to do with my mental health. I had a steady, well-paying job with good benefits. Although you mock the chem angle, monoamine chemistry, in fact, does seems to be the primary determinant.
However, I do think that US doctors and pharmaceutical firms push mind altering drugs out like candy.
I did Ketamine treatments for about a year to help treat mental health affects from having Covid.
I was in the hospital with Severe Covid and severe Pneumonia. I am under 50 and was in good health and active. Members of my family were sick for only around 4 days. I took the medicines promoted by fellow conservatives but they only gave temporary relief but I kept getting worse. I recovered but couldn’t work for months.
To me, ketamine feels a lot like laughing gas. It isn’t addictive and really helped me a lot. I haven’t had any treatments in over a year.
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