• HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 days ago

    I’m gonna tap the sign.

    (The Drug User’s Bible, by Dominic Milton Trott)

    Do not let Elon Musk own ketamine. It is a valid depression treatment.

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      9 days ago

      Well…it’s found to effective at halting the immediate effects of severe depression. In other words, it’s just enough to stop someone from going suicidal or worse. It has NOT been shown to be a good candidate for long-term use in treating general depression in anyone, in fact, there’s a larger nunber of studies correlating Ketamine abuse with mental defect than showing it useful in a medical capacity.

      There’s a huge difference between those two things. Here’s a study that only looked at previous records (no conflict of interest in new study targets) : https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8972190/