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Is Spravato More Effective than Ketamine? To much fanfare, Johnson & Johnson’s drug company, Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc., has been testing a new drug for treatment-resistant depression, Spravato – also known as esketamine. Chemically, the generic ketamine and Jonson & Johnson’s patented Spravato are very similar. Spravato will undoubtedly be much...

Esketamine Does Not Live Up to Hopes for a More Convenient Ketamine Eskatmine (brand name Spravato) is a new nasal spray that works like ketamine. To treat depression, ketamine has been delivered through an IV or breathed in as a nebulizer treatment. The idea of a nasal spray has been...

How Much Does Spravato Cost? Spravato (generic name esketamine) is the newly patented and newly FDA approved modification of ketamine. It’s been released by Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. with much fanfare. They claim it’s a new kind of drug for treatment-resistant depression. Unfortunately, it’s hard to find any...

Is Spravato Nasal Spray for Depression Really New? In March 2019, the FDA approved Johnson & Johnson’s new depression drug. Company spokespeople have said it uses the “first new mechanism of action in decades.” That means it should work on the body in a new way. But wait . ....