[HN Gopher] Inside London's first Ketamine therapy clinic ___________________________________________________________________ Inside London's first Ketamine therapy clinic Author : pmoriarty Score : 17 points Date : 2022-04-06 22:08 UTC (51 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.leafie.co.uk) (TXT) w3m dump (www.leafie.co.uk) | ggm wrote: | Large exclusion list at the bottom, which is understandable but | the likelihood of people who seek this treatment having co- | morbidities is high. -It's part of the problem really. | | Hopefully that will shrink. And, this needs to move into the NHS. | (this is a fully private clinic service only at this stage) | | Wait lists for anxiety & depression amongst the young are pretty | high. (I'm not in the UK, this is what I am told) | jimnotgym wrote: | Waiting lists in my area for 'non-urgent' cases of mental | health are over 1 year. | standardUser wrote: | "Psychedelics, like ketamine, also have the ability to produce | neuroplasticity - encouraging the brain to grow synapses and | nerve connections which then opens up the potential to lay down | new patterns of behaviour" | | This is the key takeaway from the steady stream of good news | we've been getting about psychoactive drugs and how they can help | with issues like addiction and depression. I can see how a | skeptic might look at these reports and think "how convenient, | all the fun drugs make people happier for a little while". But I | think we're discovering that it isn't this or that drug that has | the potential to help people, but rather the approach that is | enabled by an entire class of drugs. Determining which drugs can | be most useful and how to apply them will be a big ongoing | project (now that we're finally able to finally do the research). | The drugs we use down the line may be nothing like the drugs | we're looking at today. | radicaldreamer wrote: | This is available in California as well (albeit from mostly | private providers and not covered by most (or any?) health | insurance) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-06 23:00 UTC)