Now although the anaesthetic for animals and people is being used in a boundary-pushing treatment, the form of the drug and how it is received is far from what you may have done in the middle of a festival so don’t go claiming that you made this discovery years ago. In fact, the “unique” doses of ketamine are taken via IVs, sprays or pills during a treatment process that will set you back around $3,000.
Although the treatment is expensive, Pestikas said she feels much better for a few weeks after each treatment, however, she states that she has to focus on raking together the payment for the next dose as the effects do eventually wear off.
For now, ketamine has not received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating depression, having said that, many scientists believe that it is possible that the drug is effective at targeting the brain’s glutamate pathway, a chemical messenger that scientists suspect plays a role in depression.
I guess from here we will have to wait and see how effective the treatment is proven to be when applied to a wider set of patients.
