The anaesthetic drug ketamine can bring life-saving hope for people suffering from treatment-resistant major depression or at severe risk of suicide, but unsupervised use or excessive dosages hold addictive and even lethal risks. This is the warning sounded by the South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP) against the ‘recreational’ or unsupervised use of a drug for which scientific evidence is … Continue reading The life-saving and life-threatening uses of ketamine