FDA has approved the first ketamine-based antidepressant

Taken as a nasal spray, Spravato may quickly help people with hard-to-treat depression

ketamine laboratory

KETAMINE’S SECOND LIFE  A laboratory is churning out a newly approved antidepressant nasal spray that is based on ketamine, giving that powerful, old anesthetic new life as a treatment for severe depression.

Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 

Doctors have a new weapon in the fight against particularly pernicious depression: a drug based on the powerful anesthetic ketamine.