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Currently, there's no quick fix for severe depression. Antidepressants usually take weeks to work, if they work at all. But patients who received experimental doses of ketamine â?? long used as an anesthetic, and an illegal club drug â?? report an astounding relief from their symptoms in less than a day.

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