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Vicc · 01-22-2008, 07:04 AM

I have to confess that I tried to hijack this thread. Paula Abdul was obviously stoned and I wanted to talk about why.

I think the only reasonable explanation is that she has RSD; realized her announcement could kill her career (it could have), so she denied it, and she found about ketamine. I brought this up before, and everyone agreed I was wrong. I didn’t push it because I didn’t see how it was relevant to anyone here. Now I see that it is:

People I care about are wasting their money and their hope when they try ketamine. I can’t prove anything, but I can present enough evidence to convince someone that I’m right. I hope someone asks for that evidence.

Before I talk about that, however, I want to say a few things about me; because I claim to be an expert in drugs and drug behavior, so I need to tell you why you should listen to me. I also claim to have been honest in every post I wrote here or at BT.

Those who remember me from BT know I revealed things about my life that they probably wouldn’t. Whether people believe I’m honest will determine whether you listen to me.

The State of Kansas broke some rules in order to hire me as a psychiatric social worker just 18 months after I earned my BSW. Until then, a BSW had to have 5 years of related experience. I am a court-qualified expert in psychology and substance abuse. My superiors recognized me as best qualified.

It’s ok to ask why you should agree with a social worker who disagrees with the entire medical community about the cause of this disease: I tried to write in a way that showed I knew what I was talking about, and everyone agreed they couldn’t understand what I was saying, I’ll try another way.

But now I’m saying that I know what I’m talking about when it comes to drugs and the penalties of RSD, so when I say I know why K didn’t work for most people here, I’m giving you the professional opinion of an expert. You can choose to believe that or not.

I can prove that researchers weighted the largest “study” on RSD and ketamine, in favor of ketamine. I can prove it, but I’m not going to deliver another Vic Lecture: I’ll present my facts to anyone who sincerely demands them. If no one asks, I can tell myself that I tried.

I can explain why I’m convinced that Paula Abdul is taking larger than approved dosages of ketamine. In addition to being a qualified expert, I also have 20 years of experience using and abusing drugs and alcohol, and hanging around with people like me. I have seen every stoned state imaginable.

I have never seen a drug that could sustain that sort of euphoria, and I can’t imagine why she would use K unless it worked for her. She knows the price she’ll pay.

In another post I said I would trade the rest of my life for 3 years of euphoric activity instead of pain and disability. I would. I think I would have refused it in 1979 (when I was first disabled), but after looking back on 28 years of my life, that would have been a mistake. But I was never offered that choice, so it doesn't matter.

No one here will get to make that choice. You have to have money and status to get a doc who’s willing to lie about dosages, so it doesn’t matter. It does matter that the experts have cooked the books in order to get people to pay for therapies that often fail. It matters because you will be wasting your money (if insurance will pay for it, you I,m ok with wasting their money).

All you have to do is look around here: I think there may be two people here who report long-term remission after ketamine; the rest don’t seem to differ from those of us who never tried it. It doesn’t work for most people and it probably won’t work for you.

So, if you want evidence proving the experts cooked the books, ask for it and I’ll provide it. If anyone wants to encourage others to try it, I’ll let someone else ask questions. I would just like to see a real discussion about ketamine; not just an impressive looking report that no one actually studies…Vic