Trump Orders ‘a Lot’ of Ketamine for Depressed Veterans
The president told the VA to purchase a large amount of a controversial new nasal spray. The agency says it will consider incorporating the drug after it has more data.
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the government will purchase “a lot” of the drug esketamine, a derivative of ketamine.
Though ketamine is known as a recreational hallucinogen, Trump asserted that a new nasal-spray derivative would be of great benefit to veterans with depression. As he left the White House for a veterans’ conference in Kentucky, he that he had instructed the Department of Veterans Affairs to make a large purchase—overriding a by the doctors who manage the hospitals’ formulary of which drugs are to be prescribed.
