{"id":3481,"date":"2012-07-09T10:38:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T17:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/special-k\/"},"modified":"2012-07-11T10:44:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:44:21","slug":"special-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/09\/special-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Special K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-07-08\/special-k-for-depression-renews-hope-in-hallucinogens.html\" target=\"_blank\">from Bloomberg News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Special K For Depression Renews Hope In Hallucinogens<\/h1>\n<p><em>By Jason Gale, Makiko Kitamura and Allison Connolly &#8211;\u00a0Jul 9, 2012 6:43 AM MT<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/56\/Ketamine.svg\/471px-Ketamine.svg.png\" height=\"538\" width=\"471\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Donald says he thought he\u2019d died minutes after\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/dea\/pubs\/abuse\/drug_data_sheets\/Ketamine.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ketamine<\/a>, a popular club drug known as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ketamine.com\/dissociative-anaesthetic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Special K<\/a>, was infused into his vein at a Sydney hospital in March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t see anything except pure white,\u201d recalled the 63-year-old depression sufferer, who declined to be identified by his last name. \u201cI thought, \u2018oh well, I must have died.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His vision normalized within a couple of hours, he said. So did his mood, giving Donald respite from the debilitating\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/topics\/depression\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">depression<\/a>\u00a0that had defied a dozen antidepressants he\u2019d taken over decades.<\/p>\n<p>The former academic\u2019s experience is part of broader tests to determine whether ketamine, a hallucinogen commonly used to anesthetize horses, can offer a new avenue for relieving the low mood and self-esteem and feelings of hopelessness that plague as many as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mental_health\/management\/depression\/definitio%20%20n\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">121 million<\/a>\u00a0people worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-07-08\/special-k-for-depression-renews-hope-in-hallucinogens.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Bloomberg<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Bloomberg News Special K For Depression Renews Hope In Hallucinogens By Jason Gale, Makiko Kitamura and Allison Connolly &#8211;\u00a0Jul 9, 2012 6:43 AM MT Donald says he thought he\u2019d died minutes after\u00a0ketamine, a popular club drug known as\u00a0Special K, was infused into his vein at a Sydney hospital in March. \u201cI couldn\u2019t see anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}