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I knew someone with a horrible addiction/dependence on ketamine and justified it by always talking about how it cured depression like it was a vitamin.
by user3939382 2y ago
I knew someone with a horrible addiction/dependence on ketamine and justified it by always talking about how it cured depression like it was a vitamin.
- sneak 2y agoI know people who had horrible addictions to ketamine and adderall (who also had depression and ADHD) who managed to recover from those addictions and years later use them appropriately and in reasonable therapeutic doses on a normal therapeutic schedule for treatment of same. Anecdotes are not data and abuse potential isn’t really relevant to their clinical utility. Do we need to have a comment about junkies whenever someone mentions that they received fentanyl for a major surgery?
- user3939382 2y agoMaybe there’s a danger in 100% of the time discussing this drug’s benefits with no discussion of the risks.
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoAren't there always risks with any treatment though? I'm not sure why psychedelics need to be specially called out.
- dhdjruf 2y agoIts a schedule 1 drug for a reason. Many people have used psychedelics and have had permentant changes to their personality. I think the hippie stereotype is indicative to how damaging psychedelics have on the mind. You look at these people they are happy but something is clearly wrong.
- sneak 2y agoKetamine is schedule 3. It is regularly prescribed. Schedule 1 substances basically can’t be prescribed without very special circumstances and permission. (Marijuana is in this class in the USA, strangely enough, along with MDMA.) Even methamphetamine and cocaine aren’t Schedule 1.
- ViktorRay 2y agoKetamine is actually a Schedule 3 drug. Schedule 3 drugs have strict regulations but are not on the same level as Schedule 1 drugs. Schedule 1 is the most severe in terms of regulation. Adderall is Schedule 2.
- antonkochubey 2y agoAnd marijuana is still schedule 1, surprisingly
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- thejazzman 2y agoi envy those people so very very much. i don't care how wrong it might seem to appear happy, sounds awesome.
- solumunus 2y agoThey don’t and aren’t.
- cantSpellSober 2y agoWere they the director of the Yale Depression Research Center?
- itronitron 2y agoand are they hiring?
- konfusinomicon 2y agoperks include padded floors and walls in the office (yes they are pushing RTO too), and free adult diapers for when your bladder inevitably fails.
- cco 2y agoI think I'm out of the loop
- vajrabum 2y agoI came here to say this. I know someone who had one dose of ketamine for PTSD after a terrible fire. Worked like magic, but being a regular ketamine user is mind altering in a way that isn't good. These days there are quite a few people who are getting ketamine through a doctor on a weekly basis. John C Lilly was a regular ketamine user and his crazy-seeming thinking and writing later in life is an example to avoid and consider.