Is Ketamine An Opiate? No & Why
In the December 2018 issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry, researchers suggested that the increased use of low-dose intravenous ketamine wasn’t a suitable replacement for depressants, could be easily used as an opioid abuse replacement, and its antidepressant effects require opioid system activation. This led to a broad acceptance that ketamine is an opiate (natural opioid) or opioid…