Jack Curran became addicted to the party drug ketamine, which he started experimenting with at age 16. Within a few years, it ...

A single low dose of the anesthetic ketamine restored the ability to enjoy sweet treats and social contact in mice that had ...

Polysubstance abuse, using multiple types of drugs at the same time, is a common cause of death from overdose and an ...

Two young women speak to the BBC about why ketamine has become such a popular drug.

Roughly one in ten Americans suffers from major depressive disorder (MDD) at any given time. In total, up to 20 percent of ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers have delivered a significant blow to drug traffickers, seizing a staggering ...

Among the vetoes rolled out with just hours to go before the next fiscal year begins at midnight: $300,000 for a study of the ...

Among the 16 drugs included in this review, only ketamine and esketamine were more effective than placebo at reducing symptoms of depression. The effects of ketamine lasted no more than one week after ...

One study showed that ketamine non-responders had significantly higher scores than responders in the "anxious ego-disintegration" 5-Dimensional Altered State of Consciousness Rating Scale (5D-ASC) ...

The first time Barney Casserly used ketamine at a UK music festival he thought he had found "nirvana". Five years later he ...

Dexmedetomidine (Precedex; Hospira Worldwide, Lake Forest, IL) exerts its physiologic effects through the α 2 -adrenergic receptor system. Initial Food and Drug Administration approval in the ...

Ritalin is one of the treatment options used for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). When you first start taking Ritalin for ADHD, the side effects are usually temporary. Learn more ...