> I don't think it's a regulation bug to require a study to approve a drug for a certain use. That's actually not how it works. When a drug is FDA approved fo

> I don't think it's a regulation bug to require a study to approve a drug for a certain use. That's actually not how it works. When a drug is FDA approved for a certain use, doctors are free to prescribe it for anything the think it's useful for. This is called "off label" use, and is ~20% of prescriptions in the US. This "loophole" cures a lot of people! And there are some clinics who do use regular Ketamine for depression. The main problem for them is that insurance will not cover this usage. > The bug is that we don't incentivize funding expensive studies to discover unpatentable (i.e. cheap) treatments. This I agree with. Though I'd expect some philanthropic billionaire to get to that long before any governments would.