Ketamine psychedelic therapy treats alcohol addiction at 65.8% nonrecitivism for a year. That's why it's not approved for this use, nor will it -ever be- since it's not talked about or explored in any way. (medical use of K limited to severe depression)
74 2016-01-21 by 911bodysnatchers322
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5 OB1_kenobi 2016-01-21
Psychedelic therapies in general seem to work surprisingly well. I've read articles talking about Ayahuasca, psilocybin and even LSD being used to treat alcoholism, depression etc. to great effect.
That's probably part of the problem. A lot of people simply wouldn't bother with alcohol in the first place if weed was legal. Then there's the huge loss to the pharmaceutical industry if there was a cheap, effective and natural alternative to the shitty ineffective meds they sell.
2 bombsaway1979 2016-01-21
up until recently, I think in experiments, LSD was shown to have the greatest effect on alcoholics, with up to 50% of the subjects involved never touching a drink again (which is one of the largest success rates of any treatment at the time....looks like maybe ketamine can offer something similar)
2 OB1_kenobi 2016-01-21
There have also been some similar stories about ibogaine. People experience real change in their lives after just one or two "treatments". This includes stuff like no longer being addicted to drugs such as heroin or oxycodone.
A drug that helps people get off drugs? Makes you wonder why something like that could possibly be illegal... and yet it is.
4 shitbric 2016-01-21
Well you will fuck up a form of depopulation control if this study was confirmed.
3 know_comment 2016-01-21
Medical use of Ketamine isn't limited to depression. It's used as an anaesthetic and for pain management too.
As a minor, I was administered ketamine as a dissociative sedative for a surgical procedure where i didn't need to be put under (similar to N02/ xanax administration for wisdom tooth extraction). There are other post-operative applications as well.
2 laughingrrrl 2016-01-21
I requested a trial of Ketamine for depression from my shrink. He said no, he could lose his license for doing that. (Don't know if that's really true.) So I don't know where people are getting the information that it's being used for depression. It's been tested for use with depression, but not approved in the US.
2 Dipheroin 2016-01-21
This article doesn't say anything about the KPT. How often are they being administered ketamine? If it's on a regular basis then it makes complete sense why it wouldn't be approved since ketamine damages your liver and mixing that with alcohol abuse would be very dangerous.
3 CelineHagbard 2016-01-21
Did you actually read the paper or just the abstract? I'm not being snide; I'm just curious because I only have access to the abstract.
1 Dipheroin 2016-01-21
I read what was avaliable to me which was the abstract.
1 ChocktawNative 2016-01-21
Meh, the fact that it's even used for depression is a sign that the tide is changing.