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TexasBushwhacker

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21. Using Ketamine at sub-anesthetic doses is an off label use
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 04:41 PM
Dec 2024

Ketamine has been approved by the FDA for decades. It has been shown to help treatment resistant depression when other antidepressants have failed, PTSD and chronic pain.

If you take a daily aspirin to prevent strokes, that's an off label use as well. It's unlikely that Ketamine will ever be approved to treat depression because it's now generic and quite inexpensive, therefore pharmaceutical companies aren't going to spend millions of dollars on double blind studies. However they have developed and gotten approval for a chemical cousin, esketamine (marketed as Spravato).

I have plenty of issues with Musk, but if he's using Ketamine under a doctor's care, I have no issues with it. Personally, it's been life changing for my treatment resistant depression.

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Musk has admitted to using ketamine. SunSeeker Dec 2024 #12
He is also, on all the evidence, a deeply unpleasant person with negligible social skills. Emrys Dec 2024 #17
Using Ketamine at sub-anesthetic doses is an off label use TexasBushwhacker Dec 2024 #21
It's been reported that Musk abuses various drugs tulipsandroses Dec 2024 #26
None of that would surprise me... sheshe2 Dec 2024 #30
what post 5 by musk? oh, scroll scroll... got it. never mind :) nt orleans Dec 2024 #25
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Looks like Trump is afraid his sugar daddy is losing that loving feeling. SunSeeker Dec 2024 #11
Who is she? obamanut2012 Dec 2024 #14
Meanwhile, Musk is throwing his toys out of the pram on Twitter: Emrys Dec 2024 #5
Appreciate the temperance and professionalism of exboyfil Dec 2024 #8
He missed his calling Emrys Dec 2024 #9
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Elon is as unhinged as Trump. SunSeeker Dec 2024 #10
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Lonely guy (R) BoRaGard Dec 2024 #15
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