The regulatory body for Alberta doctors has recently updated its regulations allowing non-hospital treatment centres to administer Ketamine to treat serious depression and mental health conditions.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta now approves community facilities with in-house anesthesiologists and psychiatrists to offer the dissociative or sedative psychedelic via IV ."I'm really excited to be on this new frontier, and a brand new way to treat patients," said Dr. Craig Pearce, president of anesthesia for the Alberta Medical Association, and medical director at SABI Mind, a private psychedelic therapy clinic.
Andrea Daye says she's suffered with depression on and off since she was 16, and underwent Ketamine treatments from June to last August. She says maintaining her mental health is ongoing, but the therapy helped her find her way out of a major depressive episode last May. "What is it that's really driving these effects? Is it the drugs that are being used or the context in which they're being given? That's what we're really interested in, is really distilling it down to what is the important ingredient that we need to look for," said Dr. Leah Mayo, Parker Psychedelics research chair at University of Calgary.
"There's a lot that we still don't know about the use of psychedelic drugs and how they actually help people with mental health conditions," said Dr. Ishrat Husain, head of clinical trails at CAMH. For Dr. Mayo in Calgary, expanded science and research would help provide broader access to effective alternative treatments.
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