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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Cranberry Juice Antidote
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.023745.25203@spdcc.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 02:37:45 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Dec22.023745.25203
- References: <4260057@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com> <1992Dec22.004206.5183@eng.umd.edu> <1992Dec22.020117.23728@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec22.020117.23728@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> barlow@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Rebel) writes:
- >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.
-
- That might be it, but I can assure you that drinking cranberry juice
- would have no effect on ketamine's actions sufficient to call the juice
- an "antidote" by any stretch of the imagination.
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