The tragic early death of "Friends" star Matthew Perry from a ketamine overdose in 2023 has swung a spotlight on the dangers of unsupervised use of the potent anesthetic. Now, America's leading ...

Ketamine is called a dissociative drug because during a high, which lasts about an hour, people might feel detached from their body, their emotions, or the passage of time. Frequent, heavy ...

After two years of regular ketamine use, Dan was snorting three grams on a Monday night – and urinating blood. He had started taking the drug recreationally aged 23, when he moved from the ...

Ketamine has received a Hollywood makeover. It used to be known as a rave drug (street name special K) and cat anesthetic. However, in recent years, some doctors have prescribed ketamine to treat ...

The anesthetic ketamine is being hailed as a breakthrough therapy for people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), treatment-resistant depression and other mood disorders. But the drug does ...

For the first time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of a ketamine-like drug as a stand-alone therapy for adults with treatment-resistant depression (TRD).

These women say yes. “Ketamine is helpful for getting one out of the negative frame of mind,” Elon Musk told an interviewer last year. The unelected man currently gutting US federal programs ...

Ketamine can trigger symptoms similar to those of schizophrenia, but it isn’t known to cause the disorder itself. Ketamine is gaining attention for its potential to treat depression and other ...

Ketamine, a powerful horse tranquilizer and anaesthetic, is an increasingly popular recreational drug of choice for teenagers, according to the latest government crime survey for England and Wales ...