Awakn Life Sciences Initiates Follow-on Behavioral Study to Focus on Gambling Disorder

Awakn Life Sciences has announced that they have initiated a larger behavioral addiction study investigating ketamine as a treatment for Gambling Disorder. The larger study announced today will include 42 patients who are suffering from Gambling Disorder and will see participants undergo a memory reactivation procedure, which is designed to weaken the link between reward and addiction memories. The larger placebo-controlled study will be the first investigation globally to explore this technique to treat Gambling Disorder.