By D. Jason Palmer
ScienceNOW Daily News
8 August 2006
A drug you’re as likely to find at a rave as at a veterinarian’s office may be the next big antidepressant. A single dose of Ketamine, a veterinary anesthetic that’s also renowned as the recreational drug “Special K,” improved the mood of patients with major depression in as little as 2 hours, with effects lasting up to a week, according to a new study.
Comment:
This is the true definition of double standard. My horse can get it legally at the vet; If I say I am depressed but really pretending, I can legally get it at my doctors but I can be arrested if caught with Ketamine for recreational purposes.
Wow, the public can now legally get a politically correct version of PCP.
Here is what a doctor visit will be like: “Please mister doctor, I am so depressed, can you give me something, please?” “Sure Johnny, here’s the new, safer PCP, it’s called Ketamine but you can tell your friends your getting “Special K.” The hallucinations will only last an hour or two; you can’t drive, operate heavy machinery, coherently function at work ,or in life but the good news is, you wont be depressed. Because, Johnny you will be so wacked out of your skull that you won’t even notice or care about what you were depressed about in the first place.” Wow, that sound great doc, your tops!
I would like to personally thank everyone at the FDA for caring enough about me and my fellow Americans to give us what we have been asking for, for so many years; a breakfast cereal that my insurance will pay for.
Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc
