A drug that is known on the street as “Special K” was intercepted Jan. 12 when it was shipped from Austria bound for Florida packed inside homemade candles. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers ...

An autopsy report named acute effects of ketamine as Perry's cause of death. Multiple arrests have been made and federal charges filed in connection with "Friends" actor Matthew Perry's October ...

As a paramedic and thirty-year U.S. Navy veteran, Steve Viola had long wondered what drove people to take their own lives. Then in 2021, separated from his wife and feeling adrift, he fell into ...

Ketamine is perhaps best known as a horse tranquilizer and a party drug, but over the past few years, scientists have increasingly explored the drug’s potential as a treatment for severe depression.

People keep talking about ketamine. The drug has become a favorite of celebrities, billionaires and ordinary patients, many of whom view it as a potential miracle drug for depression and other mental ...

Matthew Perry’s personal assistant injected him with three fatal doses of ketamine, prosecutors charged Thursday, as they announced arrests in the beloved “Friends” star’s death — including the ...

Ketamine is a short-acting general anesthetic that’s been around since the 1970s. It was first used in the United States for sedation and pain management during the Vietnam War. It continues to have ...

Jeff Winograd, who's lived with depression for more than 25 years, says ketamine treatment saved his life. Jeff Winograd couldn’t get off his couch. He’d hit rock bottom with the depression he’d had ...

Ketamine infusion therapy as a treatment of clinical depression is still relatively new, but has been shown to have beneficial effects on clinically depressed patients. Not everyone who receives ...

Talk therapy has been an excellent–sometimes life-saving–process for many struggling with mental health. But for others, no matter how long they spend on the therapist’s couch, they struggle to find ...

Ketamine is a medication that doctors use as an anesthetic to induce loss of consciousness. Under the Controlled Substances Act, health experts consider ketamine a schedule III non-narcotic substance.