A group of leading mental health experts in the UK has called for researchers to abandon a £1m project that would involve administering a combination of electroconvulsive therapy and the banned recreational drug ketamine to patients. They have grave concerns about the use of the powerful mix of therapies that the research study – backed by the UK National Institute for Health Research – intends to test.
[link url=http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/22/critics-attack-ect-ketamine-therapy-depression]Full report in The Guardian[/link]