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Re:Ketamine lifts depression via a byproduct of its metabolism by martin1975 on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @01:50PM (#11903852)
I'd so try a ketamine based product, despite the fact that its regular use is for general anesthesia ... If I remember correctly even SSRIs were "accidentally" discovered by observing metabolizing effects of - and I hope someone corrects me here if I'm off - cough syrup.

Dicking around with the chemistry of ketamine to make it safe and therapeutic as well as pre-cursory enough for consumption to generate the desired effect could take years though, and there still might be issues even then that would prevent it from general use....

Bit off topic - if there's one place where I am for patents, it's for pharma - takes years to find something that works, and when they finally do, it's only natural that they would want to recoup the money.

Re:Ketamine lifts depression via a byproduct of its metabolism by maxerickson on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @02:05PM (#11903977)
There are clinics in the US using it to treat depression.

Who knows how much scientific justification they have to do so, but they are taking patients and so on.