• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Honestly, one of the worst things House did to the modern zeitgeist was to convince techbros that shoving ket up your nose 24/7 will make you smarter.

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      Wasn’t it vicodin abuse? All I remember them saying about ketamine was House saying it was a lame drug for being heroin without the high.

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          I think at the end of s2 or start of s3 (or s1 and s2) he had a spinal injection of Ketamine that removed his pain, but it eventually came back.

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        Wasn’t it vicodin abuse?

        Yes, for the leg pain initially. Although, I thought for sure either he or one of his staff experimented with other drugs, including stimulants, for various reasons.

        I might just be confusing him with Sherlock Holmes, who was notorious for cocaine addiction.

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      1. It was vicodin

      2. It didn’t make him smarter, it allowed him to think about something else besides the pain.

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      4 months ago

      Last time I did ket I found myself lying on the front lawn of an LA suburban family home, in the rain, watching Mel Gibson choke out Gary Busey, but I definitely was not anymore intelligent from that encounter.