Check 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

Check 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.