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The brochure also says that common names for ketamine are: K, special K, cat valium, vitamin K; street names are: Green K, Honey oil, Jet, Ket, Kit kat, Purple,. Special la coke, Super Acid, Super C.
Risks: "Ketamine can cause depression, delirium, amnesia, impaired motor function, high blood pressure, and potentially fatal respiratory problems."
It's too scary for me. Peggy
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Those are street names not medical names. Please don’t let the illegal use of a drug keep you from relief. Especially if you have no other options. Ketamine has been around since the 60s.
Sudafed can be used safely and knowledgeably by the public. It also can be turned into a nightmare. It is controlled now so only the right people can get it. Does that happen all the time? No. Would you use it if you could to make meth, ice, crystal, or any other names that pseudoephedrine can become? Or would you use pseudoephedrine to treat a cold?
Don’t let the seedy, criminal side of life decide your healthcare.
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After being patented by Parke-Davis for human and animal use in 1966, ketamine became available by prescription in 1969 in the form of ketamine hydrochloride, under the name of Ketalar. It was officially approved for human consumption by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 1970 and, because of its sympathomimetic properties and its wide margin of safety, was administered as a field anaesthetic to soldiers during the Vietnam war.
Ketamine is now being used to manage treatment-resistant depression. Indeed, 25 years before the first randomised controlled trials of ketamine in depression by Berman et al. and by Kudoh et al. demonstrated that low-dose ketamine improves the postoperative state of depressed patients, Sofia had experimentally observed that ketamine possessed an antidepressant activity.63 As, contrary to ordinary antidepressants, ketamine does not act within weeks, but within only a few hours, it has been proposed as a potential fast antidepressant in patients with high suicidal risk.
Today, the interest in ketamine continues. Its value and safety in anaesthetic and analgesic management have been demonstrated in thousands of patients, and after more than 50 years, ketamine makes a true clinical comeback in the affluent world. In the less affluent world, and since the Vietnam war 40 years ago, it has remained a crucial sole anaesthetic agent enabling surgery to be performed where, without it, nothing would be possible.
https://journals.lww.com/ejanaesthesiology/Fulltext/2017/09000/History_of_anaesthesia__The_ketamine_story___past,.2.aspx