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What Is a Brain SPECT Scan? How It Helps Diagnose Complex Mental Health Conditions

Learn how Brain SPECT scans can reveal overactive or underactive brain regions, aiding diagnosis of TBI, depression, anxiety, and more. Discover how Lone Star Infusion uses this powerful tool to guide treatment-resistant mental health care.

Aug 6th, 2025

What to Know About Ketamine Therapy: Benefits, Process, and Patient Considerations

Discover how ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) can help with depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Learn about the process, benefits, risks, and if it's right for you.

Jul 25th, 2025

From Long COVID to Thriving: My Journey with Ketamine Therapy at Lone Star Infusion

Discover how ketamine therapy at Lone Star Infusion helped one former ER nurse recover from Long COVID, PTSD-like symptoms, and depression. A powerful 4-year patient testimonial.

Jul 25th, 2025

LONE STAR INFUSION & NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS (NAMI)

Help Lone Star Infusion Ketamine Clinic support our patients!

May 6th, 2025

Ketamine IV Infusion Treatment Center

At Lone Star Infusion, we specialize in Ketamine IV Infusion Treatments designed to help alleviate mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, and bipolar disorder, as well as neuropathic pain conditions.

Mar 21st, 2025

Ketamine for Anxiety: Are Distraction Tools Adaptive or Maladaptive?

At Lone Star Infusion, we treat many patients for anxiety related conditions with very good results. After the initial 4-6 sessions of Ketamine Therapy, the goal is to have the patient on a sustainable plane of emotional awareness that allows them to come

Sep 30th, 2024

'Rushmore,' long COVID stories net Houston Chronicle journalists Best of the West honors

Lone Star Infusion Ketamine Clinic is honored to be an instrumental part of the care of patient’s living with Long-Covid syndrome. Below is a heart-felt award winning Houston Chronical article about a day in the life of one of those lives.

Aug 18th, 2024

CRPS/RSD and Ketamine Treatments

Intense, chronic pain can be debilitating.

Feb 12th, 2025

Journey to Healing: Dr. Chauncey Jones on CRPS, Ketamine Therapy, & Patient-Centered Pain Management

Exploring Compassionate Care, Innovation in Pain Treatment, and the Power of Connection with Dr. Chauncey Jones of Lone Star Infusion

Feb 1st, 2025

Trauma and Ketamine Infusions

Revisiting trauma can be uncomfortable or scary. Here is some context and strategies for patients.

Sep 12th, 2023

Helpful, Free Online Resources

Here are a selection of excellent resources online to supplement and support your treatments for mental health. These resources are helpful and free!

Apr 29th, 2021

Why Doesn't Insurance Cover Ketamine?

Insurance companies don't cover ketamine treatments for depression, anxiety, pain or other conditions. Exceptions prove the rule.

Feb 24th, 2021

Sustain Ketamine Treatments Through The Holidays

Holidays are great, except when they are not. Some things can help sustain the benefits of ketamine treatments during the holiday season.

Nov 24th, 2020

Will Ketamine Cure Me?

Ketamine infusions are an exceptional treatment for depression and anxiety, and they allow patients to work on substantially improving their lives. This additional work can be an important part of lasting improvement.

Nov 4th, 2020

Dealing with Anxiety: Strategies for Covid and Beyond

This has been a stressful time for most people. Some simple strategies may help.

Aug 5th, 2020

My View of Patients Before and After Ketamine Treatments

A blog post by Pam Barnes, Office Manager at Lone Star Infusion on seeing people get better with ketamine treatments.

Apr 29th, 2020

Nitrous Oxide for Depression

We offer nitrous oxide inhalation treatments as an alternative to ketamine infusions. Nitrous oxide has a long history of safe use and shows promise in treating depression.

Apr 6th, 2020

Mental Health Wellness for Quarantine

Helpful advice. Mental health wellness tips for quarantine.

Mar 31st, 2020

Sleep and Mental Health

The quality of sleep is an important part of your mental health. Getting the right amount of sleep and getting good sleep may help with mood disorders, including depression and anxiety. There are some easy (and not so easy) ways to improve your sleep.

Jan 15th, 2020

New Research on Medication Resistant Depression | Lone Star

Learn about the latest research on medication resistant depression and how ketamine therapy is offering new hope for lasting relief.

Oct 30th, 2019

Bipolar Disorder and Treatment Options

Bipolar disorder may be the least understood and the most stigmatized mood disorder. But there is hope. Treatments may help.

Sep 3rd, 2019

The Fight to Get Better: Recovering from Depression and Anxiety can be Difficult.

I frequently see this with my patients: Ketamine treatments are often effective for depression and anxiety, but getting better can still take work.

Aug 27th, 2019

Childhood Trauma and Ketamine

Patients with high levels of childhood trauma are more difficult to treat, however ketamine can still effectively treat them and does so better than typical antidepressants.

Jul 18th, 2019

Will my hormones affect my treatments?

The effects your hormones have on your treatments

Apr 25th, 2019

Comparing Depression Treatments

At lone star infusion, we are open and honest with our patients and happy to discuss all the alternatives to treatment and the risks and benefits of each so that they can choose what treatment works best for them.

Apr 8th, 2019

Post Partum Depression

Lone Star Infusion has been treating postpartum depression successfully and less expensively without a hospital stay for 4 years.

Mar 25th, 2019

Sustaining Results With Ketamine Treatments

The results of ketamine treatments for mood disorders – including depression, anxiety and PTSD – can be sustained over time through a combination of infusions in a series and maintenance treatments on a periodic basis.

Apr 16th, 2018

Ketamine for Depression - Our Results

For treating depression with ketamine infusions: This study reviewing our results shows an overall response rate above 70% for patients who receive an initial series of treatments either once a week or twice a week.

Apr 11th, 2018

How Does Ketamine Work?

How does ketamine work in the body?

Mar 8th, 2018

Adjusting Doses with IV Ketamine Treatments

At Lone Star Infusion, we find that getting an appropriate, individualized dose appears to impact the quality of the results.

Feb 13th, 2018

The Psychedelic Experience With Ketamine Treatments

Psychedelics continue to show excellent results in treating depression, anxiety and PTSD.

Feb 6th, 2018

Benzodiazepines, Alcohol, and Ketamine Treatments

Ketamine is a tremendous and game-changing treatment option for mood disorders including depression, anxiety and PTSD.

Jan 22nd, 2018

Ketamine infusions With Other Treatments for Depression

Some medications and procedures for depression can’t be combined easily.

Jan 19th, 2018

What to Do with Advice on How to be Happy

How are we supposed to think about an article, like this one below, that posits that depression and anxiety are primarily caused by structural imbalances in the way we live our lives, such as structural problems like being the janitor instead of the CEO:

Jan 12th, 2018

Ketamine versus New Derivative Drugs for Depression

Despite new drugs being developed based on the success of ketamine, it looks like conventional ketamine treatments may remain the best option.

Jan 6th, 2018

Ketamine, FDA Approval, And Off-Label Use of Drugs

I see a lot of confusion when it comes to this subject, and I think this is a good area to explore further.

Aug 2nd, 2017

What can you treat with Ketamine?

Beyond its conventional clinical use as an anesthetic agent, ketamine has increasingly shown good results in the treatment of other conditions.

Jul 29th, 2017

What is Ketamine: Medical Use

Ketamine has a long history of medical use and the research to date supports ketamine as a safe and effective medication when administered by appropriately-trained medical professionals, such as anesthesiologists.

Jul 22nd, 2017

Ketamine in the Body: Why Ketamine By IV Infusion

Ketamine may be delivered by multiple paths: IV, IM, PO, sublingual, subdermal, intranasal, and rectal.

Jul 15th, 2017

What Is Ketamine Infusion Like? | Lone Star Infusion

Curious about ketamine infusion? Learn what to expect during treatment and how it may help with depression, anxiety, and chronic pain.

May 15th, 2017

What is Ketamine: An Overview

Ketamine was created in 1962. It was the first dissociative anesthetic agent in modern medicine, meaning that at high doses it can create a strong feeling of disconnection from one’s self and reality.

Apr 5th, 2017

Magnesium for Depression and Pain: An Important Mineral That Improves the Action of Ketamine

Magnesium appears to be related to healthy neural activity and magnesium appears to improve the action of ketamine at the neuron synapses when the two are given together.

Sep 10th, 2016

Rapid Relief for Postpartum Depression

Ketamine offers the possibility of rapid reduction of depressive symptoms, and may be an excellent option for people struggling with postpartum depression.

Jul 22nd, 2016

Ketamine Infusion Therapies for End-of-Life Care

For a terminal illness ketamine may be a really great treatment option.

May 17th, 2016

Ketamine Treatments and Your Team of Doctors

Much of modern medicine relies on doctors and other health care professionals working together in coordinated teams of experts – each person doing what they do best to take the best care of the patient.

Apr 19th, 2016

Why we started Lone Star Infusion

We started Lone Star Infusion, PLLC to safely provide ketamine as a life-changing treatment option for patients in the Houston area.

Apr 5th, 2016