What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain

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19. So with something that powerful. Why is it the I have to so my ID anytime I pickup my meds. In a drug store that......

....... I have been a regular customer for more than twenty years. I take one drug that is for pain, and I have taken it for years for back pain caused by a 6-foot fall from a ladder. I take it as prescribed three times a day. I also get heart and diabetes meds.

Yet another set of laws/rules for the rich and powerful and for the rest of us a different set. US that keep everyday communities running.

Ketamine
Then, in the 2000s, researchers found that doses of ketamine that didn’t put people to sleep could rapidly reduce symptoms of depression, because, the thinking went, the drug altered the physical circuitry of the brain. In 2019, the FDA approved a nasal spray containing a form of ketamine called esketamine (sold under the brand name Spravato) for patients with depression who hadn’t responded to other treatments. Spravato came with a list of rules for how the drug should be administered: in a certified medical setting by a health-care professional, and with limited dosage amounts determined by how long a person has been in treatment.