Strontium Dawg
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8 hours ago, fyzygy said:I am keen to try ketamine infusion therapy. It's recommended by US doctors for a few conditions that I suffer from. But I live in Melbourne, Australia. I'd like to hear from anyone who's used it in a psychotherapeutic context, their experiences whether positive or otherwise.
I have a mate who's been in for infusion therapy to help reduce his dependence on opioids after long term use (from a debilitating injury, not by choice).
You're in a hospital setting, and get drip fed ketamine, I think it ramps up to 12mg/kg of body weight per hour, and the treatment goes for more than 24 hours. He described the whole thing as an ordeal, being holed out for a day is pretty challenging. Helped him a lot though, didn't need any opioids for more than 3 months this afterwards. Can't really say if it did much for depression cos he's a pretty upbeat bloke despite the chronic pain. I can ask specifically if you want me to.
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12 hours ago, fyzygy said:Thornapple, jimsonweed - a kind of "nightshade" according to the ABC - seems like a very non-specific plant ID, under the circumstances.
I guess the media didn't want to mention the D word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura
or nominate a particular culprit (if known). There is no entry for "thornapple" or "jimsonweed" on Wikipedia. Rather:
Datura is a genus of nine species of highly poisonous, vespertine-flowering plants belonging to the nightshade family Solanaceae.[1] They are commonly known as thornapples or jimsonweeds, but are also known as devil's trumpets[2] (not to be confused with angel's trumpets, which are placed in the closely related genus Brugmansia).
Articles on ABC today did mention D.strammonium, but I guess outside circles like ours, common names are more likely to be remembered than Linnaean nomenclature.
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2 hours ago, waterboy 2.0 said:Put em in the post and off they go...
Not prohibited under the Biosecurity act or Poisons acts.
I recently sent some non prohibited seeds to a mate in ye olde delta of Venus and they were seized. Seems like a lot of quarantine agents are using the "throw the seeds out first,ask questions later" philosophy
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Yeah datura is the #1 candidate
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Yeah sent this to a member yesterday. I have no doubt this response in Tas has virtually zero to do with public health concern, and almost everything to do with the fact that they don't want their Norman strain production fields contaminated with rogue papaver pollen.
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Migraines. I had them from the age of about 9 until 13 regularly, like every 6 weeks. Completely debilitating. After that age, rarely. I've had maybe a handful in the last 36 years.
No, I never had regular access to mushrooms while I was experiencing them, and I haven't had a migraine in probably at least 10 years now.
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Interesting to hear you can now get it OTC. About 25 years ago I used to get it prescribed, and my doctor used to have to call to get special permission to even prescribe it. It was bout $50 for two tabs back then. It feels a bit like the come up on mushrooms or acid, not surprising as it's psilocybin analog.
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On 14/11/2022 at 1:41 PM, saguaro said:assume the objective of this press release is to inform people like users of PST, or people who would pass on the info about the risk of poisoning to PST users (like yourself). I
Edit:reread your post and answered my own question
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NSW health, after much badgering from Torsten and others, have finally updated the alert advice and issued a product recall for all Hoyts poppy seeds.
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6 minutes ago, saguaro said:Trust the science
The wording of their press release is likely to cause more harm. Because they dont mention Thebaine as the rogue alkaloid, their press release might be interpreted to mean there are batches of seeds that are stronger than usual for other alkaloids and people might seek these out.
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The advice from NSW health has been terrible, they stated seeds are safe to consume once cooked, this is definitely not true. Thebaine will not be destroyed by cooking temperature.
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Store bought seeds are often viable.
Clearly something very wrong has occurred in supplying these seeds for food.
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This is becoming a disaster, there are people in ICU and even more in emergency wards, please do not consume anything with poppy seed at the moment, even cakes etc.
There are people in ICU and more turning up in emergency all the time.
Thebaine poisoning is likely from all poppyseed products right now.
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On 10/11/2022 at 7:21 PM, ZooL said:I have often seen clearly unwashed poppy seeds in health food shops etc that i assume are a by product from the tassie poppy fields, i dont know much about poppies but have heard the strains grown there for medical stuff can have a really high thebaine content?
Seems a dangerous game to play to go for seed tea when you don't know the strains they came from.While there is still major stigma and lack of available support for people with opiate/opioid dependencies, it remains one of the options available that is affordable and keeps people away from dealers and possible legal troubles.
Generally, high thebaine strains are closely protected due to patents, so it's not expected for them to enter food chains.
This is why harm minimisation is so important.
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2 hours ago, Cubism said:Its definitely bad in Batch No 28622BN. Had an unpleasant experience myself a week or so ago so went and checked the batch number after seeing it on Reddit.
Whether there's more bad batch numbers I don't know, hope not.
Stay safe bro.
We need good folks like you to stay with us.
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On 10/11/2022 at 7:21 PM, ZooL said:I have often seen clearly unwashed poppy seeds in health food shops etc that i assume are a by product from the tassie poppy fields, i dont know much about poppies but have heard the strains grown there for medical stuff can have a really high thebaine content?
Seems a dangerous game to play to go for seed tea when you don't know the strains they came from.Or possibly P. bracteatum seeds got in there also.
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Torsten just posted this, please take note!
Urgent harm minimisation alert!
I have just been made aware that there is a cluster of poppy seed poisonings caused by Hoyts poppy seeds (from woolies). One patient who was tested was found to have little morphine but large amounts of thebaine in their blood. Hospitalised after just 120g of poppy wash.
It appears toxic thebaine poppy seeds have entered the food distribution network with dire consequences. This is probably not limited to Hoyts.
Please share widely.
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Likely just impurities.
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A 10 second search of erowid shows it's hardly an "entirely new drug discovery".
https://erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_2Fluorodeschloroketamine.shtml
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Add ipomea and Alicia, I've never seen anything grow like Alicia in my life, most out of control liana I've ever grown. I had to remove it, it took over half my yard.
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I was more concerned about the potential incrimination of people requesting material that is illegal to procure or possess. Acacias in general are fast growing species, quick to mature. Exceptions are localised endemic populations susceptible to pressures that would not bother widespread species.
Always remember the first rule of SAB club: dont fucking incriminate yourself, that includes requests for material that is not legal to possess, even if the cultivation of the same live species is entirely legitimate.
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14 hours ago, Boof said:Thanks everyone, that's good to know. I knew they would have pest potential; didn't know 30 metres, I thought I'd read 30 feet! Currently growing it up part of the house and am draping over / framing the windows with it, might need to rethink that!
Don't let it get onto your roof...mine started ripping up tiles and causing all sorts of problems!
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Aura - ketamine injections
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I'll find out, somewhere in Melbourne