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🗓️ 24 July 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Back from the Abyss, where we bring you stories of hope and healing, recovery and redemption. |
0:17.7 | I'm Dr. Craig Hecock, your host and resident psychiatrist. |
0:25.6 | Today I'm doing a mini episode on ketamine. |
0:28.6 | If you've already listened to a few of our episodes, you've heard ketamine mentioned a number of times. |
0:33.6 | I see ketamine is one of the fastest and most effective ways to pull patients |
0:38.4 | out of a depressive abyss. So today, I'm going to answer seven of the most common questions |
0:44.4 | about ketamine. Here we go. Number one. What is ketamine? Well, ketamine is a lot of things. Number one, |
0:53.3 | it's an old drug that has found in new use. It's been around almost half a lot of things. Number one, it's an old drug that has found in new use. |
0:56.7 | It's been around almost half a century. It's widely used around the world as a general anesthetic. |
1:03.4 | But interestingly, like a lot of other medications, it's been repurposed for something else. |
1:08.6 | And in the last few years, ketamine has swept through |
1:11.7 | psychiatry as potentially one of the most powerful and exciting new treatments for depression |
1:16.2 | in a long, long time. Many psychiatrists, myself included, would argue that the last, generally |
1:22.8 | safe and effective, and that's very important, safe and effective. Antidepressant to come on the market was |
1:29.0 | Lomotogene or Lomictal in 1994. And there's been a lot of meds that have come on the market since that time, |
1:34.7 | but with increasing efficacy, we see a lot of potentially awful side effects. Question number two, |
1:42.4 | how does ketamine work who knows and really how does any psychiatric drug work |
1:50.9 | I mean to be honest the level of understanding that we have right now in psychiatry would be |
1:56.6 | sort of like if you said well how does a car work and someone said oh here's how a car works |
2:00.8 | you sit in the front seat you put the key in the ignition you turn it It's sort of like if you said, well, how does a car work? And someone said, oh, here's how a car works. |
2:01.3 | You sit in the front seat, you put the key in the ignition, you turn it on, you put it into gear, |
2:08.1 | and then you push the accelerator and you drive. |
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