Ketamine, commonly used as anesthetic drug some years back, is once more creating medical attention due to its innovative results in treating depression resistant to standard drugs and chronic pain.
Los Angeles residents are quickly debunking the stigma on this ‘party drug’ who want to recover from depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Overcoming doubts, especially when they get information about its safe treatment for these psychological disorders. Today, research indicates that with safe, use it is excellent therapy and works excellently to treat depression.
Why People Use Ketamine Drugs: Therapy vs. Getting High
While the Special K drugs used in wild parties are technically similar to ketamine used in therapeutic sessions, the motives and results of the experiences are different. Let’s break it down:
Using Special K to Get High:
People can misuse Special K as a street drug to get high. Some are looking for an exciting experience at a party event, while others use it to forget or avoid struggles in a difficult life. Once they take a dose of the drug, they start feeling its effects.
At low doses, ketamine causes a slight, dreamy mood like hovering outside the body. For high doses, it leads to hallucinogenic or euphoric feelings making users feel further disassociation from their bodies such that they feel immobile and unable to communicate. Some users call this impression as going into a “K-hole,” some saying they are encountering a near-death experience.
The worse and risky situation that can happen is when users get their supply from illegal sources such as the Chinese black market. Such sources can produce a mixture of these drugs with other toxic chemicals or substances resulting in an unreliable final product, making it difficult to know a safe dose.
How Ketamine Works and How PhysiciansUse it as a Therapy to Transform Lives
Ketamine is classified to drugs known as dissociative anesthetics. These types of drugs make users have ‘floating’ sensations as if they are detached from their surroundings and insensitive to physical pain. The main reason is that it obstructs the action of neurotransmitters known as glutamate in the brain, thereby blocking chemical signals that control consciousness and other regions in the brain.
Ketamine works quickly as a dissociative anesthetic, the reason why practitioners use it as a sedative agent in surgeries while also working well as a party drug too. In medical treatments, physicians use Ketamine as the first anesthetic before using other strong painkillers such as morphine. However, these anesthetic effects do not only make it a better drug, but it is an effective antidepressant drug.
Moreover, doctors never understand fully how the drug’s chemical works to relieve depression. However, it works well, and the scientific findings clearly state that consistent therapeutic doses of ketamine alleviate the symptoms of depression.
Before understanding how ketamine is transforming lives in Los Angeles, we must understand the demanding living standards residents face. To begin, some residents have lost their jobs since they can’t find the will to leave their beds in the morning. Some have broken relationships and other marriages ending up in divorces. These conditions have caused depression, and some people have committed suicide when they can’t take the immense pressures in their lives.
All these tragedies are all too common and using ketamine therapy has produced positive results in these cases.
Also, residents in Los Angeles have suffered from anxiety attacks, depression, PTSD, anxiety, and bipolar disorders. However, Ketamine therapy has helped thousands struggling with these psychological conditions every day. Some even benefit a lot especially when other treatments such as SSRIs have been ineffective.
Although physicians do not prescribe Ketamine medication for depression, most clinics have offered monitored ketamine therapy that has helped many people. Besides, Ketamine Advocacy Network has been on a mission for spreading awareness of its healing action to treat resistant depression, PTSD and anxiety. The network also encourages its availability and affordability to anyone who needs it.
Even though some health agencies have not yet approved ketamine as a prescription pill or nasal spray form to treat depression, many therapy centers can provide a legal, medically monitored ketamine treatment for depression. Such centers, some located in Los Angeles, are known as Ketamine Clinics.
In these centers, doctors can use ketamine drugs in calm and controlled settings through venous or infusion methods.
The Future of Ketamine
The progression of ketamine therapy is breathtaking. The director of the Institute of Mental Health Dr. Thomas Insel said that latest research suggests that when patients are given the drug intravenously, it might be the most important discovery for antidepressant treatment in years to come.
Provided a person uses it carefully for medicinal use, the benefits will prove the drug is worth a safe treatment for depression, anxiety, and PTSD.
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