Researchers from the University of Manchester demonstrated with the help of a study that ketamine also known as “Special K” can treat people who suffer from depression. Ketamine is used as a horse tranquillizer and as a hallucinogenic pleasure drug, and now it seems like many “depressed” people will get it from pharmacies, most likely a prescription will be needed.
According to Bill Deakin, neurologist and leader of the study, this is a “completely novel way of treating depression and a new avenue of understanding depression”. To get to this conclusion, Deakin and his team treated 33 healthy men who were monitored minute by minute and the scans showed that the drug took suprinsingly good effects almost immediately.
Bill Deakin is very happy with his research because “many people don’t respond to treatment” and here he was reffering to Prozac. Maybe this is the end of Prozac, but we hope that the 121 million people affected by depression will feel much better after the ketamine treatment.
