Ketamine

The New Zealand drug company trialling ketamine to treat depression

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Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand. This week he talks to Douglas Pharmaceuticals’ Dr Peter Surman and Simone Hollier. Did you know that there is a local pharmaceutical company … Read more

Finally: tests reveal NZ had some very legit pingers last summer

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The results of more than 400 drug tests from across the festival season are in. Who is eating what? Our essential explainer. What’s all this then?  Volunteer drug testing agency KnowYourStuff’s annual results are in, cataloguing 445 substances tested with FTIR spectroscopy and reagents across seven festivals this summer. What’s the skinny? There’s more MDMA … Read more