Posted on 06/04/2012 11:17:00 PM PDT by Daffynition
Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have called it "the magic drug," able to halt severe depression and suicidal thoughts in patients within a matter of hours.
Ketamine, used as an anesthetic in human and veterinary medicine, has emerged in the past few years as a promising, rapid-acting antidepressant. When administered intravenously at low doses, it can lift symptoms of deep depression within hours, for seven to 10 days. Typical antidepressants, which act on the neurotransmitter serotonin, take a month or more for full effect.
(Excerpt) Read more at articles.courant.com ...
When a new kind of therapy is introduced, especially a new psychoactive drug, events often follow a pattern of spectacular success and enormous enthusiasm followed by disillusionment.
I don’t think that research should stop, especially b/c so many people suffer from PTSD, migraines and such. While a *cure* may not be possible...synthetic derivatives might prove to be useful .......I don’t think researchers should stop trying.
that is one of the more informative yet frightening posts in the history of free republic
Today's miracle is tomorrow's nightmare.
Today's miracle is tomorrow's nightmare.
"Yale: 'Magic' Antidepressant May Hold Promise For PTSD"
How much scarier a title could one find? "Yale"? "Magic"? "May Hold Promise"? "for PTSD"??? (my emphasis)
Not too long ago we had an article on this kind of stuff for PTSD, linking to:
ARMY WARNS DOCTORS AGAINST USING CERTAIN DRUGS IN PTSD TREATMENT
Excerpt:
"The Army Surgeon General's office is backing away from its long-standing endorsement of prescribing troops multiple highly addictive psychotropic drugs for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and early this month warned regional medical commanders against using tranquilizers such as Xanax and Valium to treat PTSD."
These cause more suicides! Intravenous administration of this hallucinating drug doesn't sound like a home-based remedy ---
She told me the whole story once...sure don’t wanna hear it again.
My dogs are only allowed isofluorane.
It’s the only one safe for Sight Hounds so I figure it’s the only one safe for all my critters.
They said he had ptsd and was being treated for it.
link to him saying he can't remember anything about that
night.......hmmm
Main Entry: phar·ma·cy
Etymology: Late Latin pharmacia administration of drugs, from Greek pharmakeia, from pharmakeuein to administer drugs, from pharmakon magic charm, poison, drug
Date: 1651
1 : the art, practice, or profession of preparing, preserving, compounding, and dispensing medical drugs
2 a : a place where medicines are compounded or dispensed b : DRUGSTORE
3 : PHARMACOPOEIA 2
The term magic arts comes from the original word, pharmakia, from which we also get the word pharmacy. It also refers to the use of drugs, or sorcery. Those involved
in sorcery get high on drugs in order to make it easier to
contact demons.
Pathetically today, millions of young people are getting in bondage to Satan through the use of drugs without even knowing it.
Most people taking drugs claim there aren’t any harmful affects from drugs. But drugs act as a tool to open the mind, and leave you defenseless against evil spirits entering and taking possession. Ninety percent of those who belong to the church of Satan started on drugs.
As mentioned earlier, the mystics of the east use drugs in order to go into a trance which enables them to make contact with the spirits, and they are soon possessed by them. Charles Manson is a typical example of one who became possessed by evil spirits through drugs.
Revelation 18:23 - sorceries (Pharmakia, in the Greek) = drugs.
Broken link: http://www.aboundinglove.org/helter.htm
Ninety percent of those who belong to the church of Satan started on drugs.
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Then don’t give it a thought. Porn doesn’t have anything to do with rape or homosexuality, either, LOL.
Wow. Goodness...I remember that story...coincidence?
anti depressants can increase the “jitteryness/anger” and induce violence, and tranquillizers can “disinhibit” a person’s anger and result in violence.
So can alcohol.
Even “psychotherapy”, relaxation therapy, or other non drug treatments can result in removing the person’s defense mechanisms and result in violence...
The problem is that there is no magic cure for PTSS...
And the Afghanistan murders may have more behind them than simple PTSS....payback maybe. They swept it under the rug and paid off the families quickly...
Unless a very recent combat veteran, most people don’t know how “normal” they really are. It’s the world around them they try to fit into that needs help. RUN AWAY FROM THE KARDASHIANS!
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