Doctors pushing new drugs don't have to admit they are funded by the pill's makers A bright hope has suddenly appeared in depression therapy: the 'party' drug, ketamine. Known best as a horse tranquilliser, it is also used as an anaesthetic in hospitals.
But ketamine can cause soaring highs and is used illegally, with potentially nightmarish results; the drug is addictive and can trigger psychosis.
Recently, leading depression experts lined up at a London briefing to explain how an engineered version of the drug, called esketamine, promises a breakthrough in providing fast-acting help to sufferers of treatment-resistant depression. The Daily Mail
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