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[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 62 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Matt Le Blanc:

"...I guess you’re keeping the 20 bucks you owe me.”

This is exactly the kind of humour Perry would've appreciated

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 43 points 2 years ago (3 children)

And Elon Musk eats that stuff for breakfast and keeps truckin' on. Life is unfair.

[–] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago

He is not just truckin' along. The man looks like someone's aunt is trying to build mass. He looks like an uncooked weisswurst got a planet fitness membership. He is a torso made manifest. Hair plugs and ozempic riding the right-wing-pipeline down a k-hole.

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[–] spiderkle@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Takes note: Don't do horse-tranquilizers alone in a bath, check. As a matter of fact don't do any analgesic/anesthetic with additional drugs in a bath, also check.

[–] RocketBoots@programming.dev 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Calling them horse tranquilizers is misleading. Ketamine was and still is used in medicine and is on the WHO list of essential medicines.

My cat is prescribed gabapentin. Some even get tramadol. Warfarin literally was rat poison until we got all but the craziest SOBs with an abundance of vitamin K in they're veins.

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[–] saze@feddit.uk 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Damn, I did not know Ket could depress respiration like this! In fact Ket is used medicinally in place of opioids as it doesn't depress respiration. But here is the TIL part: it should not be mixed with benzos or alcohol (or other depressants I would imagine). I don't use bu I hope someone who does get to read this.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

ketamine is anaesthetic and was used in the past in combat medicine and such, because it is quite safe when administered by untrained staff. the fact it is used to treat depression is new to me, but getting in the pool while high on it is the most stupid idea ever :(.

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[–] IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Im fairly certain that what I'm about to say will be disliked by ketamine users and abstainers.

Ketamine is garbage at everything besides temporarily lobotomizing people. It works for it's many uses because it makes the user stupid. It's often given to suicidal people, not because it's a miracle drug, but because it incapacitates them in a safe manner.

That said, it's great at making people too stupid to be able to hurt themselves, most of the time. It's great at numbing psychological pain because the user will be too stupid to conceptualize their own thoughts or realize where they are physically.

It's also hard on the urinary system and has a fleeting high.

If you like ketamine then by all means, you do you. If you may be interested in trying ketamine, become a zombie safely, just don't expect it to cure your depression, woes, or any of your other problems.

[–] StorminNorman@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago (18 children)

Yeah, I'm gonna take the peer reviewed studies results that show that ketamine is quite effective with relieving drug resistant depression over this post of yours...

[–] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/10/ketamine.html

Yeah but I don’t like when peoole see one study and then claim that it’s conclusive. The consensus is that there may there might be something to it being useful for depression, and it should be studied further. No high confidence.

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[–] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I judge my desire to try drugs by how people act when they’re on them. Do they look like they’re having fun at least? Two drugs I’ve never had an interest in:

Ketamine

Nitrous

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[–] butterflyattack@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I would add to this that anyone doing ketamine should not do it in the bath, which seems to be what happened here. The same happened to someone I knew, she drowned in the tub.

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[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

Or, get this, everyone experiences drugs differently and your bad anecdote is irrelevant next to the mountains of evidence and peer reviewed studies.

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[–] dbilitated@aussie.zone 19 points 2 years ago

that's too much, man

[–] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ketamine's effects on respiratory shit is serious.

I almost stopped breathing during an assisted experience because I didn't realize mixing K with benzos was dangerous.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s how Elijah McClain died too. Young kid stopped by police for matching the description. They shot him full of ketamine and he died of respiratory failure.

[–] takingbacksunday@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Can't recall all the details, but the impression I got was his respiratory failure was caused by the officer choking him with a knee on his windpipe. EMTs did give a very high dose of ketamine at 5mg/kg body weight, whereas I usually use 0.5-1mg/kg body weight to put patients under surgical anesthesia.

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