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News,23 Jun 2025,5 mins

'Ketamine therapy has helped my depression'

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Ketamine is increasingly known as a party drug which is linked to serious health problems. But there is growing interest in Scotland in its potential to treat severe depression. One NHS Lothian psychiatrist hopes to set up a clinic by the end of the year offering the Category B drug as an alternative to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), a treatment that involves sending an electric current through the brain. Hayley Jarvis from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scotland went to meet him and one of his patients.

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