‘Bloody hard work’: Meet the doctor behind Australia’s first public ketamine clinic
The ketamine treatment clinic at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital is the first of its kind in Australia.
There is no denying that ketamine has captured psychiatry’s attention.
Once confined to the dusty shelves of the 1970s, research into the anaesthetic and illicit party drug’s potential as a mental health treatment has exploded over the last two decades.
In Sydney, this comeback culminated in the first-of-its-kind public clinic for patients with treatment-resistant depression.
“It was obvious this was coming,” says Professor Nick Glozier, lead psychiatrist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital’s ketamine treatment clinic, which was set up in 2021.
