Ketamine: the party drug that could cure depression?

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🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Ketamine (aka special K) is a party drug that causes hallucinations, loss of reality and euphoria. It ALSO may be a new cure for severe depression. Today we talk about the up to date science on how this drug affects your body, how it is being used clinically and why some doctors are becoming obsessed with it!

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0:00.0	What do Vernal Pools, Psychedelics, and Space Time have in common?
0:07.9	They're all featured on Scientific Americans' new podcast, Science Quickly, which quenches
0:13.5	your curiosity in under 10 minutes.
0:16.4	Find it wherever you get your podcasts or head over to scientificamerican.com-podcasts.
0:30.0	Today, we're talking about ketamine, a very popular party drug that's also in the news
0:36.1	for its ability to treat depression.
0:38.6	We're going to talk about what it does to your body and why scientists are kind of obsessed
0:41.7	with this sedative.
0:43.6	We're also going to talk about whether opposites attract and why July was so frickin'
0:48.2	hot, bro.
0:49.2	Which was hot, bro.
0:51.2	It was August hot.
0:52.2	We're talking about July.
0:53.2	Well, if you are like us from Toronto, the weather has not, it's been very rainy and cold,
0:59.4	but then you're just constantly reading in the news that everything is like the world's
1:02.8	boiling.
1:03.8	Yeah.
1:04.8	And so it feels weird because you're kind of just like, I kind of wish it was a little sunny
1:07.1	air and hotter, but then you're like, I don't know.
1:08.8	Well, now it is so hot and sunny, but like yeah, our August was kind of, uh, uh, weather-wise,
1:14.9	right?
1:15.9	Yeah.
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