Goddamnit,
A big part of me wishes Id never tried ketamine (or any dissociative for that matter). IVe never felt that way about any other drug - whether LSD, psilocybin, MDMA/MDA, cannabis, aMT, Nbome, 2Cs, 4-FA, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, kratom, opiates/opioids, alcohol, diphendydramine, LSA, piperazines, caffeine...literally not one has given me a sense of regret - except these motherf***ing dissociatives.
Why is ketamine so f***ing addicting?
Those familiar with serious WD (say Xanax or heroin) laugh off K WD, but holy balls it?s like perpetual mental nails on a chalkboard for me. How the hell do I get off of this stuff?
It's not a benign drug. I did less than you and have permanent bladder damage.
All other drugs including heroin and crack did less damage to my body than ketamine...and I did way more of those drugs than K
It causes the death of brain cells - I would suggest you to NEVER take it!!!!!!!so in conclusion, ketamine doesnt cause holes in your head unless you overdose regularly?
I think that ketamine is an insidious one because for the majority of users it's completely innocuous. For a large minority, however, it can have some unpleasant or downright dire consequences. Whether it's addiction, persistent delusional thinking, "k-cramps," bile tract disease, or permanent bladder damage, a respectable percentage of users have had some surprisingly rough outcomes. A lot of people in my circle use ketamine casually and feel as though it is benign. It takes time for these issues to filter into the public discourse--just look at how long Purdue Pharma was able to promote oxycodone as having a low potential for addiction.I love the heck out of ketamine and thought it to be quite benign in a general sense (mind you I'm taking 1-200mg a day insufflated, not railing/IM'ing grams at a time).
I think there was a post a while ago on here asking the same question about Salvia divinorum. I agree with Solipsis. Taxonomy is a nightmare--when you categorize by structure, inevitably people will impute function and vice versa. It's similar to the problem of the tomato. The answer to "is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable" should be "why do you need to know?" The answer for a botanist probably won't be the same as for a chef.Trying to 'classify' a drug in only one way when it has multiple pharmacological actions and effects would be a mistake anyway as it would disregard those subtleties, complexities and ambiguities.
In any case, it would still seem too misleading to me to call K an opioid when it's main primary target is the NMDAr - if you'd try to classify drugs based on their relevant secondary and tertiary effects etc (so downstream, not with any direct binding and activation of the drug itself), it would quickly get crazy.
Just because a drug interacts with opiate receptors, that does not make it an opiate. THC and other cannabinoids interact with opiate receptors, yet cannabis and hash, even pure strong Indica types are not opiates.
Ketamine is a disassociative drug like PCP, DXM, and MXE.
I think it's just because ketamine quiets/shuts down the amygdala which blocks all sort of sensations... it also completely blocks pain at sufficient dose