Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Psych Meds III

Here's something to think about.

Down at NIMH, (that's our government, honey)a team of researchers, led by Carlos Zarate, have been looking for a way to relieve the symptoms of treatment resistant depression as quickly as possible.

What they have come up with is to give an intravenous injection of ketamine hydrochloride to eighteen depressed people. Ketamine hydrochloride is an anesthetic, most commonly used by veterinarians. It is also a party drug known as "Special K."

When compared to other people who were given a placebo, the ketamine subjects showed significant improvement, measured by the Hamiliton Depression Rating Scale.

So, the folks at NIMH are having a dance party? While my adolescent boys are being busted for pot.

I wonder what "faith-based" George would think about this?

2 comments:

Amanda said...

(Snigger)

Yes. They have yet to explain to us, in a truly satisfactory way, why it is preferable to shoot at mental issues with chemical cannonballs, when perhaps a natural alternative would suffice...

skinnylittleblonde said...

unbeleivable.

sorry to hear about your son. I think that same thing has happened to just about every male in our family that was a teen in the past 30 years.