Re: WHICH MEDICINE IS LESS HABIT-FORMING? » yxibow

Posted by Racer on October 3, 2006, at 12:34:48

In reply to Re: WHICH MEDICINE IS LESS HABIT-FORMING? » Racer, posted by yxibow on October 2, 2006, at 18:14:57

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> > For what it's worth, if the label "anti-psychotic" bothers you, most of the tranquilizers/sedatives we give horses (and some that we give cats) are actually anti-psychotics. I know the name can be a bother, but the drugs themselves are useful even without psychosis. ;-)
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> Ketamine isn't an antipsychotic (horse tranquilizer, pediatric anaesthetic, and atrocious street drug K.) -- its in a class of dissociative anaesthetics and is a very nasty thing.
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> -- Jay
My point was just that, even though they're called anti-psychotics in people, they're considered effective sedatives in other animals -- NOT that they're safe because they're used in other animals. Just trying to reduce the stigma of the label...

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