The wonders of ketamine and its use in conscious sedation:
Though it’s listed as one, ketamine is not really an anesthetic; it’s not even an analgesic. It doesn’t actually stop pain. On Special K, you’ll still feel pain “” you just won’t care. Patients I have seen on ketamine become nonchalant about what’s going on with their bodies, as if they’re not really in there: “Out of body” is how users say they feel on it.
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“He was tripping, staring into the mystical middle distance, breathing deep and easy. Was this the face of the next Timothy Leary or Aldous Huxley? Was it my fault?”
–he says that like its a bad thing. Nice to know that doctors have been completely indoctrinated into supporting the war on drugs. At least the doctors who write for Time magazine, anyway.
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