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I think people with severe treatment-resistant depression deserve treatment that is safe and effective. The problem is that we have a drug that has a similar m
by DanBC 7y ago
I think people with severe treatment-resistant depression deserve treatment that is safe and effective.
The problem is that we have a drug that has a similar mechanism of action, and that we know is more effective than eskatamine. That's ketamine infusions.
We don't use that because it doesn't have a licence for this use, and because infusions are expensive and time consuming. But also, it's off-patent and so it's hard to make money from it.
Eskatamine only exists to bring a patentable medication to market, and so far the testing we have show it doesn't work particularly well.
- logiclogic 7y agoSo now patients will be offered to receive ketamine to treat their depressions, the drug they read so much about on the internet. But this time they'll get the RC Special K. Do you think the doctor will tell them all about the difference or just call it K?