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.
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
“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