Ketamine

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The drugs confiscated were estimated to be worth about 676 million ringgit (USD 161.41 million), police said. (Representational Image)

Drugs worth USD 161 million seized in Malaysia's biggest haul

Malaysia is a key transit point for illegal narcotics, with authorities seizing record amounts of crystal methamphetamine in the past year.

23 Aug 2019 1:26 PM

A decades-old drug, ketamine is already used off-label to treat depression by some doctors. (Photo: AP)

Controversial drug for depression approved

FDA allows treatment of depression with club drug's cousin.

06 Mar 2019 12:17 PM

The effects of ketamine typically lasts about a week -- much longer than would be expected with ketamine's six-hour half-life in the body.

Here’s how ketamine keeps depression at bay

When G proteins move out of lipid rafts, it allows for better communication among brain cells, which helps alleviate symptoms of depression.

26 Jun 2018 8:15 AM

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

How ketamine keeps depression at bay

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine explain how it can keep depression at bay

25 Jun 2018 3:03 PM

Following the raids, four illicit ketamine manufacturing facilities/laboratories located in Goa, Vadodara and Raigad were dismantled. Representational Image (Photo: File)

308 kg ketamine seized from 3 states, 10 including foreign nationals arrested

Ketamine is an anaesthetic agent that it often misused as a recreational party drug to have a 'hallucinogenic high'.

14 Jun 2018 6:27 PM

Ketamine can be legally prescribed by doctors as a general anaesthetic in humans and animals (Photo: AFP)

Research reveals party drug ketamine can ease depression in 30 minutes

While most anti-depressants take months to relieve depression, ketamine controls transmission of electrical signals through nerve cells.

18 Feb 2018 4:36 PM

Ketamine, an anesthetic drug, causes a rapid reduction in depression symptoms and may be accompanied by a decrease in suicidal thoughts. (Photo: AFP)

Suicidal thoughts may be reduced through Ketamine use, says study

Researchers found that administration of low-dose ketamine reduced anti-suicidal thoughts within hours.

16 Dec 2017 10:56 AM

Ketamine can significantly reduce suicidal thoughts

Here is what a new study has found.

15 Dec 2017 1:28 PM

Ketamine may hold promise as a treatment for migraine headaches in patients who have failed other treatments. (Photo: Pixabay)

Ketamine may treat migraine unresponsive to other medications

Drug is used to induce general anaesthesia but also provides powerful pain control for patients with painful conditions in lower doses.

23 Oct 2017 8:26 AM

Nagender would prepare Ketamine powder from Ketamine injections and supply it in foreign countries. In 2012, Nagender was arrested by police.

Ketamine filled in toothpaste tubes; 1 held

Ketamine is a medicine used as an anaesthetic and also for pain relief and as an anti-depressant.

29 Sep 2017 4:28 AM

It is possible that another factor common to patients taking ketamine was driving the antidepressant effect (Photo: AFP)

Depression can be cured with ketamine and botox

Patients who took ketamine less frequently reported pain and opioid-associated side effects.

04 May 2017 6:32 PM

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