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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2017
- Timmy Davis is not an alcoholic. But like many twenty-something students, he's worried he may be drinking too much.
And cutting down isn't easy. The feel-good memory associations that our minds create - between the sight of a cold pint of beer and pleasure, for instance - lead to the cravings that sustain addictive behaviour, and cause us to relapse.
Dr. Ravi Das is a neuropsychopharmacologist at University College London whose research explores whether we can intervene in addiction by weakening those memories. His latest experiment theorises that ketamine - a controlled drug notorious for its recreational use (to attain a state of intense dissociation and incapacitation described as a 'K-hole') - may have the makings of the elusive 'forgetting pill' - a drug that, administered under correct clinical conditions, can weaken specific memories safely.
Timmy has volunteered for Dr. Das' latest experiment, in which 90 volunteers will receive a ketamine infusion in a controlled setting. Timmy is no stranger to psychedelics. But could a drug he has previously encountered recreationally really help him cut down his drinking?
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VICE follows Timmy Davis, a 24-year-old who thinks he may be drinking too much, in a new study that explores whether ketamine can curb addiction by weakening our memories of the pleasure we get from drinking alcohol.
Surely the ULTIMATE question is can you use Ketamine to get off Ketamine???
Dmt and ketamine and an entire night of meditating and scanning the damage to my organs. I went from chronic alcoholism to full on week long withdrawl and 0 cravings since the night I dosed. I looked inwards and found all that I was repressing. Been sober for 3 weeks and I feel free for the first time in 4 years. I found meaning in existence again
So much respect for vice not ignoring the drug world and highlighting the highs and lows that real people have
I remember seeing this video when it was first uploaded 6 years ago. I was the most depressed I had been to date after finally getting clean from heroin.
timmy was tryna get wavy at the hospital
i cant wait for psychedelic treatment to become more mainstream, it worked for me, a good dose a mushrooms and i stopped smoking weed and came off alcohol for about 5 years
I actually started smoking crack to kick my vaping habit
This is NOT a K hole at all.
haha first thing he says is "I could use a cigarette"
My one year sober mark is in four days :D
I LOVE KETAMINE!!!!
Guy who is trying to stop drinking - let's do our interviews in the pub...
Vice reporter: "do you think it worked?"
It's not "horse tranquilizers." It's being used more and more in the medical field to treat depression and chronic pain. I was offered it at the ER just this past weekend bc I have a high tolerance to pain medication due to my chronic pelvic pain. It can really help people.
Becoming a herion addict is almost 100% effective at treating alcoholism
If you’re still functional enough to drink or answer questions...
Not sure a guy who refers to ketamine as a horse tranquilliser is right for this kind of doc', surely he's done enough research to know it is an essential medicine according to WHO and frequently used as an human anaesthetic?
He Never K-Holed! Title lied about that one.
The reporter calling it "horse tranquilizer" made me roll my eyes