Ketamine an 'Intriguing New Therapy' for Alcoholism
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Three weekly infusions of the dissociative anesthetic ketamine coupled with mindfulness-based relapse prevention therapy may help adults with alcohol use disorder (AUD) maintain abstinence, new research suggests. Preliminary results from a phase 2, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial show ketamine was well tolerated and, compared with placebo, associated with more days of abstinence from alcohol at 6 months.
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@raheman Ketamine may support alcohol abstinence by temporarily alleviating depressive symptoms during the high-risk relapse period in the weeks after detoxification. Ketamine may also provide a temporary boost to synaptogenesis and neurogenesis, which may allow psychological therapies and new strategies for managing addiction to embed more readily.