Suicide, COVID-19, and Ketamine How a Little Known Drug May Save Lives |
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| Author:
| Edwards, Johnathan |
| Editor:
| Mcknight, Kirk |
| Foreword by:
| de Becker, Gavin |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9787094-5-7 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2023 |
| Publisher: | Tailwind Publications
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $21.50 |
Book Description:
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Suicide is a fact of humanity. Once it's done, there's never going back to "OK." A mother losing her child to suicide is as bad as you think it is. If you have found yourself here, you, like tens of millions of others have been touched by suicide. When most people think about suicide, they don't imagine a young child taking his or her own life. Adolescent suicide is a reality for those who are the stuff of other people's nightmares.What if there was something else? The COVID-19 crisis...
More DescriptionSuicide is a fact of humanity. Once it's done, there's never going back to "OK." A mother losing her child to suicide is as bad as you think it is. If you have found yourself here, you, like tens of millions of others have been touched by suicide. When most people think about suicide, they don't imagine a young child taking his or her own life. Adolescent suicide is a reality for those who are the stuff of other people's nightmares.What if there was something else? The COVID-19 crisis is gasoline to the fire that is the existing mental-health crisis. The 18 student suicides in Las Vegas is one such example; or the more than 100 adolescents who have jumped to their death from the Golden Gate Bridge in 2020; or the 228 police officer suicides in 2020.What if there were a way to remove this hijacking device and grant us time to work things out so we do not want to commit suicide? Ketamine is the one drug we have available to us today that can stop suicide in its tracks. Most people have never heard of ketamine. To all the people who say more studies are needed to know if ketamine really helps suicide and depression, I offer you this admonition before first trying the drug: if you are that person suffering from depression and suicide, the risk versus reward is clearly in favor of using ketamine now.