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- From: barlow@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Rebel)
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- Subject: Re: Cranberry Juice Antidote
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.020117.23728@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 02:01:17 GMT
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- In <1992Dec22.004206.5183@eng.umd.edu> georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:
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- >I heard on TV a long time ago that cranberry juice is also an antidote
- >for a drug used by veterinarians, perhaps the same drug.
-
- >This drug prevents you from remembering anything you do, while you are on it,
- >and it makes you immobile.
-
- >Two rapist were putting the drug into the drinks of women they met at
- >bars. Then they'd take the women to their vehicles, and rape them.
-
- >They finally got caught because one woman drank lots of cranberry juice
- >before the attack, enabling her to remember sufficient detail to make an
- >arrest.
-
- >Anyway, the TV show said the drug is so effective for criminal abuse,
- >they wouldn't even reveal its name, except to say it's a white powder
- >used by veterinarians.
-
- Not being a veterinarian I am not sure but does anyone know if the drug they
- are talking about is ketamine? Trade name is Ketlar. I do know that it is used
- as an anesthetic for animals and that it has a "dissociative effect" meaning
- that it does not make you lose consciousness but that it makes you really
- spacy so you don't know what's happening to you. I do know that this drug has
- been being used by addicts on the street recently because it's easy to
- acquire...I have never seen it in powder form, when it's used it comes
- pre-mixed in solution. I don't know anything about the cranberry juice thing
- however...although I have been told it helps prevent yeast infections.
-
- Jen
-