yea, i know IFIOTW, but i figured it'd be better here:


"At first blush, you want to chuck this in the "no-kidding-that's-why-it's-abused" department. But the horse tranquilizer and hallucinogenic pleasure drug ketamine may have found a clinical home next to Prozac. A serious study by people smarter than most of us suggests ketamine ("Special K" to friends and close acquaintances) restores normal activity in an area of the brain that's usually in overdrive in people with diagnosed clinical depression.

Led by neuroscientist Bill Deakin of the University of Manchester in the UK, researchers gave 33 healthy men ketamine intravenously and monitored its effects in brain scans once per minute. Activity in the orbitfrontal cortex, which is thought to be responsible for feelings of dread and anxiety, quickly shut down.

As the researchers say, this opens the doors for much better trips — I mean moods, much better MOODS — for people suffering from depression who don't respond to other drugs, like Prozac. It also works within 24 hours, whereas 'zac can take a month."


source:

http://io9.com/386973/ketamine-makes-a-good-anti+depressant

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL0284213220080502

Yea...... we know.

sups right now NMDA receptor antagonist?

now where the hell can I get ahold of some special K?

This has been known for quite a while.

Found it out myself and found myself at the same time.

It can be pretty addictive psychologically when used however and self-treating your depression with it will only make that worse. Moderation is so pivotal in this situation as K can lead you up and out of depression or it can keep you down there.

no shit sherlock?


Yeah this is older than wow..


I actually did some k over the weekend, I think I even posted a thread in SG about it.

Yeah, ketamine fixxors depression.

I have wanted to get my hands on ketamine for sooo long...

same but most people around here have never even heard of it. and the only person I know who used to do it has been clean for a long time.

It's one the one drug who's after effects I like more then the high, because I always k-hole. That and I hate pissing on it because the toilet always seems to be a mile away when I'm right next to it.