It seems as if low-dose Ketamine has a temporary but powerful ability to inhibit suicidal thoughts in at-risk, deeply depressed patients.

Yet the lasting effects of this new “wonder drug” for depression are temporary, with relapse occurring with one week.

Perhaps this may be a new, powerful intervention to help patients who are on the edge, literally and figuratively, from taking a jump in the wrong direction.

Is this party drug useful in mental health or is it a bandaid measure to solve a bigger problem.  Perhaps, at a certain point, we need bandaids to ‘stop the bleeding’ so we can perform the surgery we really need:  therapy.

What do you think?

Washington Post article here:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-one-time-party-drug-is-helping-people-with-deep-depression/2016/02/01/d3e73862-b490-11e5-a76a-0b5145e8679a_story.html