Posted by Chairman_MAO on February 21, 2007, at 14:05:26
In reply to Re: Ketamine: a factory reset for the brain, posted by Quintal on February 21, 2007, at 10:40:42
Barbiturates are not totally obsolete, though; neurologists still use them (secobarbital, phenobarbital, butabarbital). They're just not used for anxiety where benzodiazepines are, as you say, way more effective. Gotta love that rotarod test. ;)
Benzodiazepine withdrawal can actually be WORSE.
"Dry alcohol" is indeed a poor analogy because ethanol is far more than a GABA-A agonist. Interestingly enough, however, the chemical Ro-4513 could've been developed into an "ethanol antidote", but the US government did not like this idea.
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