The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that 6.7% of all adults living in the United States have at least one major depressive episode per year. The implications of this one major depressive episode are dire: a recent large-scale, long-term study has linked...
When it comes to ketamine for depression, its ability to effectively alleviate symptoms is no secret. For several years, every ketamine study performed has shown that it a highly effective antidepressant that is effective in 70% of patients. However, when it comes to...
There is an undeniable connection between depression and chronic pain. While depression is a clinical mental health disorder, it manifests with inexplicable psychical ailments: migraine headaches, back pain, etc. And while chronic pain is a clinically physical...
In the United States alone, more than 35,000 people commit suicide annually. This translates to about 94 people per day! Across all ages, sexes and races, suicide is the 11th leading cause of death. Unlike terminal illness where a patient can be definitively diagnosed...
Battling a bad reputation as a horse tranquilizer and hallucinogenic club drug, ketamine is finally starting to gain popularity as a depression treatment. In the United States alone, there are more than 250 private clinics legally offering off-label ketamine infusions...
Regardless of the growing mounds of evidence in support of ketamine as an antidepressant, still a negative stigma exists. To some, ketamine will never be more than a club drug, or a horse tranquilizer. But to the tens of thousands of Americans whose lives have changed...
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