Drugs - Ketamine the new MDMA?

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tonydaguk
May 31, 2009

Drugs - Ketamine the new MDMA ?? (Ecstasy) Ketamine effects: Trip through history. For more info on drugs awareness - Ketamine is a drug used in human and veterinary medicine developed by Parke-Davis (today a part of Pfizer) in 1962. Its hydrochloride salt is sold as Ketanest, Ketaset, and Ketalar. Pharmacologically, ketamine is classified as an NMDA receptor antagonist. At high, fully anesthetic level doses, ketamine has also been found to bind to opioid μ receptors and sigma receptors. Like other drugs of this class such as tiletamine and phencyclidine (PCP), it induces a state referred to as "dissociative anesthesia and is used as a recreational drug.

MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, also known as ecstasy) is a semisynthetic member of the amphetamine class of psychoactive drugs. It is considered unusual for its tendency to produce a sense of intimacy with others and diminished feelings of fear and anxiety. These effects have led some to suggest it might have therapeutic benefits to some individuals. Before it was made a controlled substance, MDMA was used to aid psychotherapy, often couples therapy, and to help treat clinical depression, the results of which are poorly documented. Studies have also recently been initiated to examine the therapeutic potential of MDMA for post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety associated with cancer.

MDMA is criminalized in most countries in the world under a UN agreement and its possession, manufacture, or sale may result in criminal prosecution, although some limited exceptions exist for scientific and medical research. MDMA is one of the most widely used illicit drugs in the world and is taken in a variety of contexts far removed from its roots in psychotherapeutic settings. It is commonly associated with the rave culture and its related genres of music.
There have been debates within science, health care, and drug policy circles about the risks of MDMA, specifically the possibility of neurotoxic damage to the central nervous system. Regulatory authorities in several locations around the world have approved studies administering MDMA to humans to examine either its therapeutic potential or, more commonly, its basic effects

Ketamine has a wide range of effects in humans, including analgesia, anesthesia, hallucinations, elevated blood pressure, and bronchodilation.[citation needed] Ketamine is primarily used for the induction and maintenance of general anesthesia, usually in combination with some sedative drug. Other uses include sedation in intensive care, analgesia (particularly in emergency medicine), and treatment of bronchospasm. It is also a popular anesthetic in veterinary medicine.

Ketamine is a chiral compound. Most pharmaceutical preparations of ketamine are racemic; however, some brands reportedly have (mostly undocumented) differences in enantiomeric proportions. The more active enantiomer, S-ketamine, is also available for medical use under the brand name Ketanest S. Ketamine is a core medicine in the World Health Organization's "Essential Drugs List", which is a list of minimum medical needs for a basic health care system. Ketamine was developed by Dr. Craig Newlands of Wayne State University. It was then developed by Parke-Davis in 1962 as part of an effort to find a safer anesthetic alternative to phencyclidine (PCP), which was more likely to cause hallucinations, neurotoxicity and seizures. The drug was first given to American soldiers during the Vietnam War. It is still widely used in humans. There may be some evidence that ketamine has the potential to cause emergence phenomena because of the drug's possible psychotomimetic effects. It is also used widely in veterinary medicine, or as a battlefield anesthetic in developing nations.

On 21 June 2007 Hong Kong Medical Journal has put up a report regarding the misuse of 'street K'. The report suggests that long term use may result in damage to the liver or urinary bladder, or even acute renal failure. However, the researchers suspect that the damage "may be due to other toxins that the 'street ketamine' has been contaminated with"

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durtissanchel (6 days ago) Show Hide

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ketamine is not a hallucinagen?????
rail a fat line and tell me that again plzz

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raikkonen85 (1 week ago) Show Hide

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only video on youtbe hwich is righty about ket, its not a tranq

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more like "ketamine- the wannabe shit dirty mdma"

ross721983 (1 week ago) Show Hide

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the k is nothing like mdma for a start a downer where mdma brings you up

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JoeYY182 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide

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catamine :D

tapefilms (1 week ago) Show Hide

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@JoeYY182 put a cat in a blender and sniff it

its good shit

LyadinDima (2 weeks ago) Show Hide

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Fuck ketamine, pcp, 2cb and all that shit.

Stick with the weed, shrooms, and pure MDMA! Maybe acid, but GL finding it pure!!!

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iv had mdma mixed with ket and that was great.
when i was in hospital i was on a ketamine drip and it made me trip....the guy says its not a hallucinogen but i tript off it.

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