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Ketamine, sweet ketamine, answer to our glutamatergic dreams.

Special K, Riddle, Horse, Spesh, Vitamin K (not to be confused with the true vitamin K

Report: Ketamine aids the chronically depressed

NIMH researchers gave low dosages of ketamine to 18 chronically depressed patients, and their condition improved within two hours. Snip from High Times The Washington Post article by Neely Tucker:
Ketamine, sweet ketamine, answer to our glutamatergic dreams. In the long November night of the soul, in the ever-dark downpour of depression, it turns out that there might be a better umbrella than Prozac and Zoloft and Paxil and their serotonin-loving ilk. Of course, when it comes to antidepressants, nobody really knows anything, anyway, so why not go with ketamine, a mild hallucinogen known to club freaks as Special K?
Link. This Wikipedia item includes links to previous studies on the drug's effectiveness as an antidepressant.

And, just so you know, the stuff also goes by the names "K, Ket, Special K, Riddle, Horse, Spesh, Vitamin K (not to be confused with the true vitamin K), Smack K, Kit-Kat, Keller, Barry Keddle, HOSS, The Hoos, Hossalar, kurdamin, kiddie, Wonk, Regreta and tranq."

posted by Xeni Jardin 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092501387.html



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