an article by Donald Moore published in the Washington Post [brought to us by World of Psychology’s “Psychology Around the Net”]
Researchers have discovered that ketamine, a drug of choice for club-goers for decades, can be used to fight severe cases of the blues. For more than three decades, patients seeking treatment for depression in the U.S. have been steered primarily to one family of pharmaceuticals.
Doctors have been looking for more treatments, particularly for patients who haven’t had success with drugs or who have had suicidal thoughts. (The U.S. suicide rate increased 30% from 1999 to 2016.) Could a party drug be the key to solving the nation’s suicide crisis?
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There’s not a lot of information in this piece and it applies to the USA but it can serve eas a reminder that research continues into relieving this nasty illness called depression.
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