[HN Gopher] Inside London's first Ketamine therapy clinic
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       Inside London's first Ketamine therapy clinic
        
       Author : pmoriarty
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2022-04-06 22:08 UTC (51 minutes ago)
        
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 (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.
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       | Hopefully that will shrink. And, this needs to move into the NHS.
       | (this is a fully private clinic service only at this stage)
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       | 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)
        
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