Special K (Illicit Ketamine)
If you’ve spent any amount of time in the drug world, you’ve most likely heard of ketamine or, as your health teacher may have called it, Special K. Special K, drug researchers believe, may have uses beyond anesthesia or the dance floor - B. David Zarley
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Ketamine explained: Understanding the special k drug
Special K drug use outside the bounds of medicine began with the psychonauts and other mind explorers in the 1960s and following decades. You probably know it, however, for its proliferation to the four-to-the-floor, flashing lights, sybarite’s paradise of the dance club. Special K effects include hallucinations and a feeling of dissociation, a hallmark of its psychoactive category. Dissociatives are a group of drugs that cause a feeling of detachment from one’s self and reality; PCP and DXM (an ingredient in Robitussin) are other examples.
But users often prefer ketamine to LSD or PCP because the hallucinatory trip is much shorter (typically lasting 30-60 minutes) and requires a…
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A doctor explains what ketamine is, why people use it to party, and how to be safe while taking it.
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Heavy use of the veterinary anesthetic turned recreational drug could have serious consequences.
Ketamine Toxicity
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Ketamine Versus Special K A Double-Edged Sword
Being a developed nation entails a responsibility to consider worldwide cost/benefit ratios of United Nations’ actions whenever the issue at hand is a double-edged sword. The problem of ketamine use among drug addicts, serious as it is, remains smaller than the benefits that ketamine bestows on millions of patients who need surgery in locations where ketamine is the only general anesthetic available.
Ketamine: The illicit party psychedelic that promises to heal depression
It’s been 50 years in the making, but the anaesthetic and illicit party drug ketamine is now having a clinical comeback. New studies show that this commonly used anaesthetic can provide quick relief of core symptoms associated with severe depression, including suicidal ideation. Amazingly, ketamine works within hours and its effects are maintained for at least one week. Most strikingly, ketamine is effective in those patients who are resistant to ordinary antidepressants, and they make up around 30 to 50 per cent of the depressed population.
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Ketamine explained: Understanding the special k drug
If you’ve spent any amount of time in the drug world, you’ve most likely heard of ketamine or, as your health teacher may have called it, Special K. Special K, drug researchers believe, may have uses beyond anesthesia or the dance floor.
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