Ketamine Lozenges for Ketamine Assisted Therapy

Ketamine is a licensed anaesthetic drug. It can also work as an antidepressant but has not been licensed for this use. A closely related version, nasal esketamine, does have a licence but, mainly because of cost, I have worked with a PCAA Pharmacy and created a Ketamine Lozenges for Ketamine Assisted Therapy Program

This is a self-pay, ketamine treatment. Before offering you an assessment I will assess your suitability for treatment by reviewing a New Patient Registration Form Ketamine Assisted Therapy, New Patient Clinical History Form Ketamine Assisted Therapy that I will send you to complete and return.

If I can offer you an assessment, you will complete several Self-Report Questionnaires for Ketamine Assisted Therapy before your assessment meeting with me.

If you are an existing patient of mine, you will not require an assessment meeting. If you are currently under the care of a UK based Psychiatrist who is prepared to provide a detailed referral to me, then you will not require an assessment meeting, but this will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

I offer Ketamine Lozenges for Ketamine Assisted Therapy for the treatment of difficult to treat psychiatric disorders such as:

  • Treatment Resistant Depression
  • Depression with Suicidality
  • Suicidality
  • Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and CPTSD
  • PTSD with Chronic Primary Pain
  • Treatment Resistant Anxiety
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Substance abuse co-occurring with a primary psychiatric disorder
  • Relationship and existential issues such as existential distress
  • Bipolar I and II depressive phases (not mania)
  • Psychological reactions to physical illness and life-threatening illnesses substance
  • Chronic secondary pain (often requires higher doses of ketamine in a medically supervised setting such as a clinics or hospitals)

I may recommend that you first have Intravenous Ketamine Assisted Therapy followed by Ketamine Lozenges Assisted Therapy for any of the above conditions.

This will be on a case-by-case basis, but I will always recommend that you first have Intravenous Ketamine Assisted Therapy for:

  • Depression with Suicidality
  • Suicidality

Ketamine Lozenges for Ketamine Assisted Therapy is on a weekly basis and combined with weekly Ketamine Assisted Integration Therapy.

Assessment meetings are usually online, but we can meet face-to-face if you prefer.

Initial treatment consists of six weekly Ketamine Assisted Therapy Ketamine Lozenges and Ketamine Assisted Integration Therapy.

You can have up to 30 weekly Ketamine Assisted Therapy Ketamine Lozenges and Ketamine Assisted Integration Therapy

Longer-term, maintenance ketamine treatment, which can continue for several years may be required.

Ketamine has brief rapid antidepressant effect which has been confirmed in many several clinical trials over the last 20 years.

Drugs receive a licence if the MHRA approves them as safe and effective for a particular condition.

Ketamine is not a licensed treatment for any mental health conditions but can be prescribed as an off-label treatment for any of the abovementioned indications.

  • Ketamine is licensed as an anaesthetic and for analgesia.
  • A version of ketamine, Spravato esketamine nasal spray, has a licence for use in Treatment Resistant Depression alongside an SSRI or SNRI.
  • It has not yet been approved by NICE and is therefore not yet available on the NHS.
  • It is expensive and the Lozenges are a suitable alternative because it has a favourable bioavailability and is cosiderably cheaper

Maintenance Ketamine Assisted Therapy with Ketamine Lozenges

Maintenance Ketamine Assisted Therapy with KetamineLozenges

If you would like to find out more about this subject, then please GetInTouch, but only once you have familiarised yourself with my fee structure for KAT as detailed under my Fees