Posted on 12/13/2022 3:20:52 PM PST by nickcarraway
A programme of therapy involving the drug ketamine will be made available to alcoholics in a research project.
The University of Exeter-led trial, with funding of £2.4m, will go ahead at seven NHS sites across the UK.
The trial will look into whether a combination of ketamine and therapy could help alcoholics stay sober for longer.
Prof Celia Morgan, the academic behind the research, said there was an "urgent need" for new treatments.
The research will go ahead after a phase two trial showed ketamine and therapy treatment was safe and tolerable for heavy drinkers.
An earlier study found participants who had ketamine combined with therapy stayed completely sober, representing 86% abstinence in their six month follow-up.
The Ketamine for Reduction of Alcohol Relapse (KARE) trial will now move to the next step of drug development, with the aim of rolling it out into the NHS if it proves effective.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
I wonder what doses they will be using.
Ketamine has a very short half-life, and it causes hallucinations.
Fetterman says, “Go for it!”
Doped up on Ketamine, rather than drunk.
Probably not. For the depression, some of them only get an injection or an infusion once every few months.
Right?
Next week... “Alcohol seen as therapeutic for Ketamine Addicts”
Yell me where they are in five years
There is a proven way to stay sober but many don’t want to try it because Hod is involved
Let ‘em drink themselves to death then
There is a way out
Twenty six years and counting. Happy to be sober another day
Apparently, it works wonders for depression. Too expensive for my blood, though.
My doctor said sometimes it only takes one dose for depression.
Correct. I had a friend who was in a university trial for treatment-resistant depression. He had an injection, and it lasted three or four months.
Kind of like elecroconvulsive therapy.
Also, notice “ An earlier study found participants who had ketamine combined with therapy stayed completely sober, representing 86% abstinence in their six month follow-up.”
How they don’t mention abstinence rate with therapy alone (or ketamine alone, for that matter).
Isn’t special K even more addictive than booze? I know it pretty much makes you positively incapable of functioning and being in any way remotely productive for a significant amount of time
One addiction to another ?
“4.1 Interventions
KARE has two forms of intervention, a drug intervention and a psychotherapy intervention. The active drug intervention is ketamine, an anaesthetic/analgesic drug, to be administered intravenously. The placebo control
is saline. As well as a drug intervention the participants will receive concurrently either a psychotherapy intervention, or a psychoeducation control intervention. Hence, there are four combinations: (i) ketamine + psychotherapy; (ii) ketamine + psychoeducation; (iiI) placebo + psychotherapy; (iv) placebo + psychoeducation. Participants will receive their allocated drug infusion in 3 doses over 3 weeks. Participants will concurrently receive either psychotherapy or psychoeducation control. The trial will be performed at two sites: Devon (Royal Devon & Exeter Foundation NHS Trust) and London (UCLH).
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ProvidedDocs/31/NCT02649231/SAP_001.pdf
The therapy likely won’t require the patient to get addicted. It will probably be given in the doctor’s office.
Next, they’ll try meth.
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Oh, that's okay then.
Doctors never screw-up.
And patients never go to multiple doctor's to 'double-up'
or obtain additional off of the street.
Luckily these awful things never, ever happen.
/s
Agree. I just read over the trial info. It’s posted just an bit above.
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