A prescription version of ketamine called esketamine (Spravato), given through a nasal spray, was approved in 2019 by the FDA for hard-to-treat depression. However, guidelines required its use "under the supervision of a health care provider in a certified doctor's office or clinic." That means medical professionals need to watch you use it, and then follow you after you've taken your dose, checking your vital signs and how you are doing clinically. (Link)

Hey Elon, you got a doctor in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago

And it doesn't fucking work. Like, straight up, Spravato doesn't do anything to improve symptoms of treatment-resistant depression.

While a ketamine infusion given in a controlled environment and combined with talk therapy (like DBT) can help manage treatment resistant depression, this isn't that.

Even the clinical trials for the drug didn't indicate a statistically significant reduction in MADRS scores versus placebo, and seemingly the only thing it did was unblind the study. The fact that this drug got approved is genuinely shocking to me.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

i-cant I'm stealing this

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It'd be funnier exccept that the answer is "maybe he does." He's got enough money to have the entire hospital follow him around if he wanted so a crooked doc juicing him up is probably exactly what was happening. Remember the reports about all the stuff being dispensed during Rumps first term?

Michael Jackson had a personal doctor anesthetize him nightly so he could sleep, now that we're talking about it I'd be willing to bet that these guys are doing. Just paying some shady doctor to travel around with them dispensing whatever they want. It's not illegal if you have a doctor say you need it!

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Isn't that how Michael Jackson and Heath Ledger both died? Shady scripts from sketchy doctors providing them with dangerous cocktail mixtures?

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago

timmy-pray come on lathe, give musk the unceremonious heart attack from a bad cocktail he deserves