Ketamine has a reputation as a party drug but is licensed as an anaesthetic. The study found use of the drug via a nasal spray led to "significant" improvements in depressive symptoms in the first ...

Ketamine is related to the recreational drug phencyclidine (PCP). Studies have found that low doses of ketamine can quickly ...

The FDA updated a warning on the label of esketamine nasal spray (Spravato) about the long-term cognitive and memory ...

The FDA has approved Janssen’s antidepressant nasal spray Spravato ... The drug is the first ketamine-based medicine approved to treat depression. Ketamine has long been seen as a potential ...

Ketamine, a powerful horse tranquilizer and anaesthetic, is an increasingly popular recreational drug of choice for teenagers, according to the latest government crime survey for England and Wales ...

Now, at high doses, ketamine seems to block glutamate. That's why it's such an effective anesthetic. But in low doses, like what you might find at a club or in a spray of the FDA-approved drug ...

Ketamine’s trance-induced effects—used in conjunction with psychotherapy—is the only legal psychedelic medicine available to treat mental health conditions. In the last several years ...

A programme of therapy involving the drug ketamine will be made available to alcoholics in a research project. The University of Exeter-led trial, with funding of £2.4m, will go ahead at seven ...

Right now Ketamine is not FDA approved to treat any psychiatric disorder. But back inJuly, Johnson and Johnson did seek approval for a nasal Ketamine spray, that is currently in waiting.