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...another danger.) But Melissa was her usual cheerful, omnicompetent self: "Don't worry, we can fix up that arm right here. We'll just use a touch of atropine, a little Versed for the nightmares and then the best drug there is for this sort of thing - good old Special...
...Special K, or ketamine, is in fact an old drug. Available since the early '60's, it has enjoyed something of a rebirth in the past few years in hospitals, in-patient psych facilities and - illegally, of course - in nightclubs (the sweaty-techno-mosh-pit kinds, not the ones with elegant ladies at small tables). Though it's listed as one, ketamine is not really an anesthetic; it's not even an analgesic. It doesn't actually stop pain. On Special K, you'll still feel pain - you just won't care. Patients I have seen on ketamine become nonchalant...
Many patients, like Sasha, seem to be fascinated by the Special K high. This is what mortified me that night when I realized how much he liked what ketamine was doing to his amazing brain. I was afraid that Sasha had tasted a forbidden fruit, peeked into a place he might never forget, one he might long for. Into a 9-year-old mind already struggling with so much adult turmoil, we had loosed a psychedelic snake proffering an alternative and apparently pleasant reality...
...able to practice in this cast," he answered, and I knew, at least for the moment, that Sasha's big brain had won it's fight with Special...
...campaign. Six weeks ago, overcoming her hatred of the cold, she moved to Des Moines to be her Dad's eyes and ears on the ground in the state that will make or break his presidential hopes. "There is a degree of trust between them that is very special. It's special for family and special in a political adviser - and in her he has both," said Eric Woolson, who runs the Huckabee campaign in Iowa...