How Ketamine Became The Drug Of Choice For Our Dissociated Moment • Discoverology

How Ketamine Became The Drug Of Choice For Our Dissociated Moment

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Technically speaking, ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic, meaning that it numbs your body and makes you feel apart from your environment — like you’re watching your own life happen instead of living it. But that doesn’t begin to capture the weirdness of what it feels like to get high on K.

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