Ketamine's Depression Hype Is Being Questioned by New…

Ketamine's Depression Hype Is Being Questioned by New Research Ketamine has been hailed as a fast-acting, effective treatment for major depression, but new research questions whether the drug lives up to its hype. This is medicine doing what medicine should do: subjecting even celebrated breakthroughs to continued scrutiny. Ketamine and its FDA-approved derivative esketamine (Spravato) generated enormous excitement as the first genuinely novel antidepressant mechanism in