{"id":88845,"date":"2019-03-21T07:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/va-to-offer-new-ketamine-based-nasal-spray-for-depression"},"modified":"2019-03-21T07:45:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:45:57","slug":"va-to-offer-new-ketamine-based-nasal-spray-for-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/va-to-offer-new-ketamine-based-nasal-spray-for-depression","title":{"rendered":"VA to Offer New Ketamine-Based Nasal Spray for Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/va-to-offer-new-ketamine-based-nasal-spray-for-depression2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The newest FDA-approved medication to treat severe depression, a nasal spray based on the anesthetic (and misused hallucinogenic party drug) ketamine, will soon be available to veterans treated within the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/benefits\/veteran-benefits\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Veterans Affairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a move that may help thousands of former service members with depression that has not improved with other treatments, VA officials announced Tuesday that the department\u2019s doctors are now authorized to prescribe Spravato, the brand name for esketamine, a molecular variation of ketamine.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to offer a drug hailed by many as a breakthrough in treatment for its speedy results \u2014 often relieving symptoms in hours and days, not weeks \u2014 shows the VA\u2019s \u201ccommitment to seek new ways to provide the best health care available for our nation\u2019s veterans,\u201d Secretary Robert Wilkie said in a release.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2019\/03\/20\/va-offer-new-ketamine-based-nasal-spray-depression.html\">https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2019\/03\/20\/va-offer-new-...ssion.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest FDA-approved medication to treat severe depression, a nasal spray based on the anesthetic (and misused hallucinogenic party drug) ketamine, will soon be available to veterans treated within the Department of Veterans Affairs. In a move that may help thousands of former service members with depression that has not improved with other treatments, VA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}