Ketamine For Severe Depression: 'How Do You Not Offer This Drug to People?'
More and more doctors are offering ketamine, an anesthetic and club drug, to severely depressed patients who haven't responded to other treatments.
Gerard Sanacora, a professor of psychiatry at Yale University, has treated hundreds of severely depressed patients with low doses of ketamine, an anesthetic and popular club drug that isn't approved for depression.
This sort of "off-label" prescribing is legal. But says other doctors sometimes ask him, "How can you be offering this to patients based on the limited
