Ketamine psychotherapy for heroin addiction: immediate effects and two-year follow-up.
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment December 1, 2002 Evgeny Krupitsky, Andrey Burakov, Tatyana N. Romanova et al. 240 citations
Seventy detoxified heroin-addicted patients were randomly assigned to one of two groups receiving ketamine psychotherapy (KPT) involving two different doses of ketamine. The patients of the experimental group received existentially oriented psychotherapy in combination with a hallucinogenic ("psychedelic") dose of ketamine (2.0 mg/kg im). The patients of the control group received the same...