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		</div><p>Ketamine could be used to help people with treatment-resistant depression following positive early results from its use.</p>
<p>Scientists at Oxford University have been using the sedative to treat more than 100 people with severe treatment-resistant depression for the past six years, with 40% of patients reporting a sustained improvement in their mental health.</p>
<p>It may not be what you’d expect from ketamine, but the doctors say it really works.</p>
<p>Roughly 3% of the UK population, around two million people, suffer from depression, and it is thought up to 30% of those are resistant to treatment.</p>
<p>The results were achieved with intravenous infusions of the drug, followed by oral top ups, giving a success rate that can only be bettered by electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), Dr Rupert McShane told the Independent.</p>
<p>Ketamine is used medically as an anaesthetic, including on horses as a tranquilliser, but is also used illegally as a recreational drug.</p>
<p>Despite the positive results achieved by the doctors at Oxford, more research needs to be done.</p>
<p><i>“There are still significant gaps in our knowledge about dosage levels, treatment protocols and the effectiveness and safety of long term use,”</i> Professor Allan Young of the Royal College of Psychiatrists said.</p>
<p>Dr McShane is calling for a medical register to track how ketamine is prescribed, while his colleague Ilina Singh published a paper outlining the team’s recommendations for effective trials into the treatment.</p>
<p>Nonetheless most are looking at the research as positive, if with a little caution.</p>
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