"Ketamine is a controlled substance. It has some legitimate uses but it is also used illegally," U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Martin Estrada told reporters during a news conference announcing the charges. "It can cause serious health effects, serious health problems inclu...
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The use of psychedelics has been touted as the future of mental health therapies and treatment, and one party drug continues to be at the forefront of these discussions: ketamine. What is ketamine? Ketamine is currently classified as a Schedule III drug, which means that it’s acknowledged as...
What Is Ketamine? From anesthetic to party drug to antidepressant, ketamine has evolved significantly since the 1960s. How can it treat depression without harmful side effects? Emergency responders may give it to an agitated patient who, for example, they have rescued from asuicideattempt. That’...
Regulated as a Schedule 3, nonnarcotic substance under the Controlled Substances Act, the drug has been shown to cause dependence, especially for people with a history of addiction to other substances. But researchers are intrigued by another aspect of ketamine: its mind-altering properties, which...
Intravenous, low-dose ketamine (LDK) is as effective as intravenous morphine in the control of acute pain in adults in the emergency department (ED). That is the finding of a study to be published in the October 2018 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine
weed would soon become a Schedule III drug – alongside ketamine and some anabolic steroids – and its medical uses would be recognized. The move, however, would not legalize marijuana outright for recreational use, and it would still be considered a controlled substance subject to rules and re...
In humans Tramadol is a controlled substance that belongs to a group of pharmaceuticals called opioid analgesics that act on the central nervous system. Much like other drugs in this category including oxycontin and codeine, Tramadol has a risk for addiction and long term use can lead to ...
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Surgery Subjects were anaesthetized with ketamine (Ketalar, 90 mg/kg i.p.) and xylazine (Rompun, 6.7 mg/kg, i.p.) and implanted with an intra-venous catheter in the right jugular vein. Catheters were made from 22 gauge steel cannulae with elongated ends. Silastic tubing (0.012 inner ...