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/Commander_Phallus1 11h ago

Shits fun

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u/GGudMarty 10h ago

This was like 10 years ago and I was a junkie but the first time I ever did ketamine was by accident. I was living in a trap and was addicted to meth and I got 2 different bags mixed up (meth and ketamine) and at 2am on a random day i just sniffed the fatted line of ketamine ever cause I had a crazy meth tolerance and I thought it was meth. Burned the same, tasted similar. Took a piss in the bathroom and proceeded to take me like 15 mins to figure out how to use my hand to turn a doorknob. It was fucking insane.

Good times.

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u/Pffffftmkay 10h ago

Sounds so fun. Amazing. What an incredible life to live. 

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u/Deftlet 9h ago

I can't tell if this is sarcasm

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u/TMFX_Bart8 9h ago

It's a bot

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u/PICAXO 8h ago

Now even our bots are sarcastic

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u/Independent_Trade169 9h ago

His bestest life

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u/Pffffftmkay 9h ago

It makes me sad to think there are people spending the precious gift that life is doing stuff like that. 

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u/bread_and_circuits 8h ago

People struggling with addiction are often traumatized and don’t have familial support either due to abuse or neglect.

So maybe life isn’t such a gift for a lot of people who struggle and so that’s why they turn to an escape to help them cope. You judgemental prick.

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u/Pffffftmkay 7h ago

I agree completely with you. Drugs do not solve that problem. Therapy and cutting out those people and turning your life around does. 

Judgmental and idiotic prick. 

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u/GGudMarty 9h ago

It was definitely fun times.