Ketamine for Depression: How It Works

Re:Ketamine for Depression: How It Works by sneak on Friday February 07, 2025 @01:02PM (#42975557)

I know people who had horrible addictions to ketamine and adderall (who also had depression and ADHD) who managed to recover from those addictions and years later use them appropriately and in reasonable therapeutic doses on a normal therapeutic schedule for treatment of same.

Anecdotes are not data and abuse potential isn’t really relevant to their clinical utility. Do we need to have a comment about junkies whenever someone mentions that they received fentanyl for a major surgery?

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Re:Ketamine for Depression: How It Works by user3939382 on Friday February 07, 2025 @02:13PM (#42976304)

Maybe there’s a danger in 100% of the time discussing this drug’s benefits with no discussion of the risks.

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Re:Ketamine for Depression: How It Works by amanaplanacanal on Friday February 07, 2025 @04:33PM (#42977722)

Aren't there always risks with any treatment though? I'm not sure why psychedelics need to be specially called out.

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Re:Ketamine for Depression: How It Works by dhdjruf on Friday February 07, 2025 @06:00PM (#42978508)

Its a schedule 1 drug for a reason. Many people have used psychedelics and have had permentant changes to their personality.

I think the hippie stereotype is indicative to how damaging psychedelics have on the mind. You look at these people they are happy but something is clearly wrong.

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Re:Ketamine for Depression: How It Works by ViktorRay on Friday February 07, 2025 @06:34PM (#42978736)

Ketamine is actually a Schedule 3 drug. Schedule 3 drugs have strict regulations but are not on the same level as Schedule 1 drugs. Schedule 1 is the most severe in terms of regulation.

Adderall is Schedule 2.

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Re:Ketamine for Depression: How It Works by antonkochubey on Monday February 10, 2025 @12:24PM (#43002727)

And marijuana is still schedule 1, surprisingly

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Re:Ketamine for Depression: How It Works by sneak on Friday February 07, 2025 @06:26PM (#42978670)

Ketamine is schedule 3. It is regularly prescribed.

Schedule 1 substances basically can’t be prescribed without very special circumstances and permission. (Marijuana is in this class in the USA, strangely enough, along with MDMA.)

Even methamphetamine and cocaine aren’t Schedule 1.

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Re:Ketamine for Depression: How It Works by thejazzman on Friday February 07, 2025 @11:24PM (#42980363)

i envy those people so very very much. i don't care how wrong it might seem to appear happy, sounds awesome.

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Re:Ketamine for Depression: How It Works by solumunus on Saturday February 08, 2025 @06:33AM (#42982254)

They don’t and aren’t.

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