Chronic pain is difficult to treat and affects the individual’s quality of life, often leading to severe disability.  Ketamine was initially used in anaesthesia, but since the 1990s it has also been used in a much lower dose as a treatment for acute and chronic pain. and also works as an antidepressant 

Professor Albert Dahan and  colleagues at the Leiden University Medical Center  managed to unlock some of ketamine’s previously unknown mechanisms of action against pain, its psychedelic effects,  and also new actions on the heart and breathing mechanism. 

Read the original research: https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000004176

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