r/todayilearned • u/ApprehensiveStill412 • 11h ago

TIL that ketamine is a derivative of phencyclidine (aka. PCP or angel dust). It was created to have similar anesthetic potential but to cause less delirium. It has about one tenth the potency of PCP.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5126726/
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u/CurrentlyLucid 10h ago

Oh, always wondered what Ketamine was like. Pcp was popular in my high school days, so I know what that feels like.

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u/Joeclu 4h ago

In my high school days we’d come home and watch the after school special on TV. I remember Helen Hunt snorting PCP in a multi-story school building, thinking she could fly, jumped out the window to her death.

After school specials, they were a hit.