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FUCK KETAMINE.
why do I think that most people won't read this because it has 'big words' in it
I worked at a compounding pharmacy for veterinarians a while back. A pharmacy. We compounded tons of serious narcotics, stuff that'd probably make an awful lot of you salivate. We had a SHITLOAD of it kickin' around the warehouse.
We used it so often, as it is a popular anaesthetic for cats, dogs, and other small animals. I got to learn a shitload about it from my boss, and of course all the other drugs too, but ketamine was the one that stood out because she would tell me about people that used it.
This was just in the beginning of my time in the party scene, and I was totally oblivious to the fact that a shitload of people at The Guv used this stuff. For some reason I didn't put 2 and 2 together.
The stuff that stood out in my head from the lectures as we worked were the Olney's lesions, and the resulting vacuoles (tiny holes) that ketamine puts in your brain tissue. Essentially what it does is attack the posterior cingulate cortex and retrosplenial cortex.
What your posterial cingulate cortex controls (some parts taken from Erowid because I can't remember all of it):
-verbal and auditory memory
-multisensory perception
-visuospatial cognition and/or evaluation of emotional behaviour
Your retrosplenial cortex deals with processing your vision.
To summarize, ketamine will probably fuck with:
-memory, especially language-related (e.g., finding words)
-understanding metaphors
-evaluating, and possibly controlling, your own behaviour
-multi-sensory thinking
-learning in new situations
-certain aspects of visual perception
So, anybody suffering from any reduction of those things? I bet there's a few of you, if you bothered to read this far.
It puts HOLES in your goddamn brain, people. This isn't like that scary ecstasy propaganda from Opra where it might put drain your spinal fluid and all that shit that doesn't actually happen, BUT THIS DOES. FUCKING HOLES. IN YOUR BRAIN. Oh yeah, it's shown that prolonged ketamine use causes schizophrenia too.
OH BUT IT GETS BETTER
Guess what makes ketamine WORSE for you? Combining it with ecstasy. Those of you that take K to "ease the comedown" of E are fucking yourself even harder. This increases your risk of brain damage to SERIOUSLY scary levels. BRAIN DAMAGE. SAY IT OUT LOUD. 5-HTP is also a horrid thing to be using concurrently with K due to the very high risk of serotonin syndrome.
Drinking too. Not only is ketamine a respiratory supressant, when combined with alcohol it makes the risk of respiratory failure pretty high.
Those of you that think I'm picking on you or that I hate or don't like you - this isn't the case. I have nothing against you people, I enjoy your company and think you're good folks, but the fact that some of you do this stuff absolutely blows my mind. I'm not going to ask you to stop, I'm not telling you to stop, I'm asking you to think about what you're actually doing to yourself. This isn't snake-oil bullshit like 90% of the crap about E (which I'm not saying is entirely safe, because it sure as hell is not), this shit is REAL. This actually happens. HOLES IN YOUR GODDAMN BRAIN.
I'm done.
Last edited by VERTiG0 on Apr-19-2006 at 22:13
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