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Ketamine may be a viable alternative to opioids in the ER. Opioids, such as morphine, are an effective and relatively safe way to treat acute pain. However, with the seemingly unstoppable opioid epidemic, alternatives must be explored and rated against opioids....

Over the last 15 years, ketamine, originally developed as an anesthetic in the 1950s, has undergone a resurgence in medical circles for its remarkable effects treating major depression. Now a team of researchers has completed the first study of the drug in adolescents, revealing strong remission rat...

It’s more commonly used as a recreational drug or anaesthetic, but Australian researchers are hoping ketamine may be the key to treating severe depression — and the results are good....

London: The party drug ketamine can have powerful beneficial effects on severely depressed patients who have struggled for years to recover and the drug should be developed responsibly as a psychiatric medicine, British experts said on Thursday....

Small Pharma, a London-based pharmaceutical start-up, has raised £830,000 in funding led by Chris Torrance, co-founder of Horizon Discovery, alongside the Angel CoFund, Steve Harris, David Ebsworth, Peter Keen and Young Gun Tom Valentine....