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coffin_dodger » Mon Dec 14, 2015 2:20 am wrote:When you no longer realise that everyone else is looking at you with a mixture of sadness and fear.
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
Ray Bradbury
" [...] I have a strong belief that you don't understand the psychopharmacology of a compound unless you've actually ingested it. I used to say that AFA made methamphetamine look like caffeine. The main problem is that tolerance develops. I began taking more and more of it. It's amazing how rapidly AFA segues from euphoric stimulation into psychosis; it's such a smooth transition you don't even realize you're going out of your mind. It's the most potent psychotogen I've ever encountered.
[...]
Fortunately, I had a trusted friend calmly explain to me that I was saying things that made no sense, not recognizing people I'd known for decades, hallucinating, hearing voices, having extended conversations with inanimate objects––the whole bit. After about ten days of continuous use I was unable to get back to earth with benzodiazepines and finally gave myself an intramuscular dose of haliperidol just to put an end to it."
Marasca was later found unconscious by one of his colleagues, which raised questions about some of the psychoactive substances he'd ordered for his experiments. He was threatened with legal action and lost his job. After his departure from Schering-Plough and a brief tenure in a psychiatric hospital, Marasca transitioned into information technology.
identity » Mon Dec 14, 2015 12:06 am wrote:Just happened to be reading today in an article/annotation on the "superstimulant"/antimalarial/antibiotic amfonelic acid aka AFA (from the October Harper's):" [...] I have a strong belief that you don't understand the psychopharmacology of a compound unless you've actually ingested it. I used to say that AFA made methamphetamine look like caffeine. The main problem is that tolerance develops. I began taking more and more of it. It's amazing how rapidly AFA segues from euphoric stimulation into psychosis; it's such a smooth transition you don't even realize you're going out of your mind. It's the most potent psychotogen I've ever encountered.
[...]
Fortunately, I had a trusted friend calmly explain to me that I was saying things that made no sense, not recognizing people I'd known for decades, hallucinating, hearing voices, having extended conversations with inanimate objects––the whole bit. After about ten days of continuous use I was unable to get back to earth with benzodiazepines and finally gave myself an intramuscular dose of haliperidol just to put an end to it."
Marasca was later found unconscious by one of his colleagues, which raised questions about some of the psychoactive substances he'd ordered for his experiments. He was threatened with legal action and lost his job. After his departure from Schering-Plough and a brief tenure in a psychiatric hospital, Marasca transitioned into information technology.
Where is the insanity here? In the ten days' continuous use of AFA leading to psychosis? In the subsequent (continued) psychoactive experimentation, firing, and psychiatric hospitalization? Or in the "transition into IT"?
Or is it madness all the way through???
The list of signs and symptoms mentioned in various sources for Insanity includes the 10 symptoms listed below::
Previous history of mental illness
Previous history of alcohol or drug abuse
Aggression
Emotional lability - labile affect or pseudobulbar affect refers to the pathological expression of laughter, crying, or smiling. It is also known as emotional lability, pathological laughter and crying or emotional incontinence.
Increased energy
Elevated mood
Suspicious mood
Thoughts of conspiracy
Hallucination
Delusions
lucky » Mon Dec 14, 2015 9:20 am wrote:^^^ I 'know' this guy from and old forum he use to have access to pretty much unlimited amounts of research chems and everything else - had a huge knowledge on drugs. ....If it's the same Brian M. Very intelligent man looked a bit like a mad professor : )
Can they make themselves a sandwich right now?
lucky » Mon Dec 14, 2015 5:20 am wrote:^^^ I 'know' this guy from and old forum he use to have access to pretty much unlimited amounts of research chems and everything else - had a huge knowledge on drugs. ....If it's the same Brian M. Very intelligent man looked a bit like a mad professor : )
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. It is as if loneliness were a hard and absolute condition of existence; the envelope of flesh and blood on which our eyes are fixed melts before the outstretched hand, and there remains only the capricious, unconsolable and elusive spirit that no eye can follow, no hand can grasp.
The single most important issue in coming to grips with the
problem of drug use and drug avoidance is, in my opinion, the
medical perspective on moral conduct. As I have shown elsewhere,
the psychiatric claim that personal conduct is not volitional
but reflexive – in short, that human beings are not subjects
but objects, not persons but organisms – was first staked out in
relation to acts that were socially disturbing and could conventionally
be called "mad" or "insane."
The pioneering eighteenth-century "alienists" managed the first
factories for manufacturing madmen, and developed the earliest
advertising campaigns for selling "insanity" by renaming badness
as madness, and then offering to dispose of it. The famous
nineteenth-century "neuropsychiatrists'' made decisive advances
in both the production and promotion of madness, establishing
the "reality" of the modem concept of "mental illness": first, they
progressively metaphorized disagreeable conduct and forbidden
desire as disease – thus creating more and more mental diseases;
second, they literalized this medical metaphor, insisting that disapproved
behavior was not merely like a disease, but that it was
a disease – thus confusing others, and perhaps themselves as well,
regarding the differences between bodily and behavioral "abnormalities."
By the time the twentieth century was ushered in – thanks in
large part to the work of Freud and the modem "psychologists"
– madness was bursting through the walls of the insane asylums
and was being discovered in clinics and doctors' offices, in literature
and art, and in the "psychopathology of everyday life."
Since the First World War, the enemies of this psychiatrization
of man – in particular, religion and common sense – have lost their
nerve; now they no longer even try to resist the opportunistic
theories and oppressive technologies of modern "behavioral
science."
Thus, by the time the contemporary American drugabuseologists,
legislators, and psychiatrists came on the scene,
the contact lenses that refracted deviance as disease were so deeply
embedded into the corneas of the American people that they could
be pried loose only with the greatest effort; and only by leaving
both the laity and the professionals so painfully wounded and
temporarily blinded that they could hardly be expected to tolerate
such interference with their vision, much less to impose such painful
self-enlightenment on themselves.
The result was that when, in the post-Prohibition, post-Second
World War, better-living-through-chemistry era, the so-called drug
problem "hit" America, the phenomena it presented could be apprehended
only as refracted through these irremovable contact
lenses. Those who used drugs could not help themselves. Since
they were the victims of their irresistible impulses, they needed
others to protect them from these impulses. This made it logical
and reasonable for politicians and psychiatrists to advocate "drug
controls." And since none of this has "worked" – as how could it
have? – the blame for it all could at least be affixed to those who
sold illicit drugs: they were called "pushers" and were persecuted
in the horifying manner in which men wallowing in the conviction
of their own virtuousness have always persecuted those about
whose wickedness they could entertain no doubts.
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