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The Use of Ketamine as a Treatment for Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders

Nusrath Zuha

Ketamine, described by the formula C13H16ClNO, is most ordinarily related to adolescent and adult narcotic users and ravers who abuse this drug to experience a euphoric and dissociative state. Although this drug may be a federal schedule III drug as a results of this abuse potential, ketamine has experienced a renaissance in clinical interest in recent years.1 Although clinical use of ketamine is controversial, it's become a focus of pharmacological research thanks to its considerably diverse molecular targets and neurophysiological properties.2 In fact, recent studies have cited ketamine as a possible therapy for depression, including treatment resistant varieties, also as alcohol use disorders