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Re:Ketamine has 'fast-acting benefits' for depression by mmcwilliams on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:12AM (#16849496)
Do you have a source on that 1/2 gram number? My reading has lead me to believe that a typical therapeutic dose for these treatments is between 60-75mg. I could be way off, though.
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Re:Ketamine has 'fast-acting benefits' for depression by selectodude on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:56AM (#16849876)
It's .5mg/kg, so even 50 mg is enough for a pretty big guy. 500mg would knock you out for awhile. He might be misplacing a decimal there.
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Re:Ketamine has 'fast-acting benefits' for depression by toomanybeersies on Monday April 16, 2018 @12:49PM (#16850476)
I was looking at studies earlier today, and the upper limit (assuming a 100 kg person) was 0.5 g from one of the studies.
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Re:Ketamine has 'fast-acting benefits' for depression by 6nf on Monday April 16, 2018 @09:54PM (#16854756)
That can't be right, 0.5g will knock out a horse for many hours
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