It follows an earlier study which found participants who had ketamine combined with therapy stayed completely sober, representing 86% abstinence in the six-month follow-up.
Alcoholics are to be given ketamine-assisted therapy to see if it helps them stay off alcohol for longer.
The move is part of a University of Exeter-led £2.4m phase three trial, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research , and will be delivered across seven NHS sites in the UK.The study found participants who had ketamine combined with therapy stayed completely sober, representing 86% abstinence in the six-month follow-up.
Ketamine is a licensed medical drug, widely used as an anaesthetic and in pain relief - and is also used as a recreational drug and is classified as a Class B banned substance by the Home Office. Researchers will start to recruit 280 alcoholics in the summer to take part in the phase three trial. They will be randomly split into two groups, with half of them given ketamine at the dose used in the first clinical trial with psychological therapy.
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