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Maybe ketamine is treatment of last resort, and LSD, because they’re most likely to actually work and the pharmaceutical-insurance industrial complex wants to r
by TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
Maybe ketamine is treatment of last resort, and LSD, because they’re most likely to actually work and the pharmaceutical-insurance industrial complex wants to rinse as many people through the ineffective drugs and therapies first.
Maybe I’m just being cynical, but if the standard treatments were effective perhaps we mental illness wouldn’t be so prevalent.
Of course, it’s complex and multifactorial, and there’s societal and cultural issues, and generational issues, we need to address too.
- Valmar 8y agoExactly my thoughts.
- atomical 8y agoCheck out the book Ketamine for Treatment Resistant Depression. It's a safe drug with a low incidence of serious side effects that could help a lot of patients. Researchers have shifted much of the research to Ketamine metabolites. Their reasoning is that these metabolites have a lower side effect profile than the parent compound. It has been almost 20 years of small scale ketamine trials for depression with not much to show for it. Now, they would like to explore a diversion that may be less safe than a drug with a long history of safety. I think there are a few reasons for this: 1) Depression isn't seen as a serious disease like cancer and 2) Ketamine is a cheap drug.