Let's Brace Ourselves For A Ketamine Crisis

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The Party Drug That Could Help Stop Depression. The anesthetic ketamine receives official FDA approval to treat depression. Is the tradeoff worth it?

Many psychiatrists and pharmacists see the ruling as a win for desperate patients with few options, but others have raised concerns about the drug’s possibly serious side effects and have questioned its efficacy.

And BigPharma surely applauds the ruling too. After the opioid crisis, now the making of a new one makes no doubt.

The FDA said that people who take the drug must be monitored by a health care provider for at least two hours after receiving it. Patients cannot take the spray home.

Because you see, we are led to believe that there will not be any underground market. That everything will remain "transparent".... same happened with fentanyl, as the canadian online paper writes below.

Scientists aren’t exactly sure how ketamine acts as an antidepressant, but it may do so by increasing the number of connections, or synapses, between cells in the brain, particularly in the prefrontal cortex. Stress and depression degrade these connections, and ketamine could reverse the damage, regrowing the lost synapses. “It’s like fertilizer in the brain,” says Friedman.

The "lifesaver" argument will just do the job, the same old good sales pitch.

“This drug is known as a pretty nasty drug,” says Meisel. “One of the well-known side effects is what’s called dissociation, which means that you don’t feel a part of your body anymore, you feel like you’re in a different place. And that could be very troublesome for some folks.” Other side effects include long-term changes in blood pressure and bladder problems. Ketamine also activates the opioid system in the brain, which has led many researchers and clinicians to worry about the drug’s potential for abuse.

Sure, all good from a BigPharma standpoint, the black market is set to boom... It is just sickening

The FDA hopes the plan will help prevent ketamine from being abused by patients or diverted into the community for recreational use on the black market. But the need to visit a clinic for several hours every week will likely be a burden for many people and could limit access for people who live in more rural areas. ... FULL ARTICLE: https://onezero.medium.com/the-party-drug-that-could-help-stop-depression-2e57c195b294

Finally, the end of the article mentions "black market" after claiming so many advantages... more structural violence, more intervention in people's lives. Moreover, it looks as if Aldous Huxley was absolutely right, when predicting that society would encourage drugs to help the crowds enjoy their servitude. We can trust the meritocrats'willingness to destroy society ever further.

But will they succeed...??? It is up to each of us and say NO to the commodification of Life!!!

BEAR IN MIND: CDC: One in 13 Children Taking Psych Meds (2014) Foster care kids put on too many psych drugs, report says (2015) 70 Percent of Americans take Prescription Drugs (2015)

Nasal spray drug related to ketamine approved by FDA to treat depression
Experts believe that the OK for esketamine, a quick-acting nasal spray, is a pivotal moment in the history of mental health therapy. March 6 2019
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/club-drug-ketamine-approved-fda-treat-depression-n979101

Canada's black market for illicit drug fentanyl booming (2018)
The number of illegal drug samples containing fentanyl has doubled every year in Canada since dealers began smuggling a black market version of the prescription painkiller into the country, new figures show.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadas-black-market-for-drug-fentanyl-booming/article34116506/

Ketamine Abuse
https://www.drugs.com/illicit/ketamine.html

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Years ago I tutored a kid that was 19 that was a mess that sometimes used Ketamine recreationally (among many other drugs). The black market is already there for it, so this will only increase the flow. Of course being the CIA is the worlds largest drug supplier, the U.S. a leader in the black markets it is no surprise they are expanding what is a revenue source for them now that the southern border with Mexico is having so much light shone on it.

Plus, drug incarceration is big business with all the mandatory drug sentences filling those for profit prisons with slaves and the money pit the loved ones of the incarcerated find themselves in.

Sorry @practicalthought, I forget to acknowledge your comment, of course you are right... :)

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