Inside London's first Ketamine therapy clinic
&quot;Psychedelics, like ketamine, also have the ability to produce neuroplasticity – encouraging the brain to grow synapses and nerve connections which then opens up the potential to lay down new patterns of behaviour&quot;<p>This is the key takeaway from the steady stream of good news we&#x27;ve been getting about psychoactive drugs and how they can help with issues like addiction and depression. I can see how a skeptic might look at these reports and think &quot;how convenient, all the fun drugs make people happier for a little while&quot;. But I think we&#x27;re discovering that it isn&#x27;t this or that drug that has the potential to help people, but rather the approach that is enabled by an entire class of drugs. Determining which drugs can be most useful and how to apply them will be a big ongoing project (now that we&#x27;re finally able to finally do the research). The drugs we use down the line may be nothing like the drugs we&#x27;re looking at today.