Thursday, February 2, 2012

Ketamine

  • Ketamine, a prescription drug that has been used as an anesthetic for decades and gained popularity on the street as "Special K," is being tested in Houston as a quick fix to severe depression.
  • (ABC News)
  • Researchers may have found a  surprising treatment for depression…ketamine. NPR reports that the drug is being used for depression in an experiment at the NeuroPsychiatric Center next to Ben Taub hospital.
  • (The Faster Times)
  • (CBS) Whats the latest recreational drug to make its way to the medical field? Ketamine, also known as Special K.
  • (CBS News)
  • Since all things go in 20 year cycles, were about to be inundated with all sorts of 90s nostalgia. While Im all for ironically dancing to Poison and embracing M.C.
  • (Gawker)
  • Researchers at the Neuro Psychiatric Center in Houston revealed that they are testing whether a single dose of ketamine can provide a short term benefit of two months in treating depression.
  • (Med India)
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  • (Central Florida News 13)
  • I don't know if it's what the kids are calling it these days, but when I was growing up in the 90′s, Ketamine was known as "Special K" and largely associated with the rave scene- which was not then as lame as it looks now.
  • (The Inquisitr)
  • But theres a new drug in town: ketamine. Its not new, exactly — it has been used as an anesthetic for decades, and its a popular drug among night clubbers (called, in that context, Special K).
  • (msnbc.com)
  • ​The circle of life, or something like it, has come to the field of severe depression medicine.
  • (Los Angeles Weekly)

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