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Evangelos Pergadas

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The use of ketamine in psychiatric therapy

Hellenic Journal of Nursing Science December 1, 2023 Angeliki Statharou, Crysodimitra Galatou, Evangelos Pergadas

Introduction: Ketamine was used for the first time in 1962 in Veterinary Medicine as an anesthetic and analgesic drug. For decades it was used as a narcotic substance, more widely known as “Special K”, i.e. a recreational drug. In recent years, the scientific community has focused on its remarkable and immediate therapeutic effect on depressed patients, who showed a remission of symptoms in a...