Tackling Major Depression with the Drug Ketamine
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Hey, it looks like there may be a better way out there to take down major depression! The newest treatment for clinical depression may be a rave drug known as ketamine. In addition it appears to help people for a range of issues from addiction to Post Truamatic Stress Disorder and some kinds of chronic pain. It’s starting to be thought of as the nest big thing for those suffering from symptoms of depression and these other conditions.
How Come?
This drug has commonly been used for anesthesia, until one psychiatrist, John Krystal set up a mini study on seven of his patients by giving them Ketamine for their clinical depression symptoms. The results were great. Most of his patients disliked the high feeling that the drug gave them, but once it wore off the depression that they lived with was gone. Other researchers have been able to duplicate the results in their own trials and it seems to work.
Ketamine has even been called a ‘reset button’ for the brain in a dysfunctional rut. It acts in only a few hours to relieve a patient’s clinical depression symptoms and seems to work for most of those who take the drug to relieve their symptoms. Keep an eye out on the market because I have a feeling that drug companies are going to try and take advantage of this one.
Side Note:
As many as 850,000 people kill themselves around the world as a result of their clinical depression each year. There are thought to be around 13 percent of Americans who suffer from major depression each year and it can take someone suffering from long term clinical depression months to find the one drug or combination of drugs that will work to set their brains in balance again.