A WHOLE NEW KIND OF "K" RATION: "Army's decision to test the animal tranquilizer Ketamine as away to soothe injured soldiers. The drug – known in the clubs has 'Special K' – has been reducing party-goers to gurgling blobs for more than a decade. This year, the Army has been running final, phase III Food and Drug Administration trials on a quarter-dose nasal inhaler of 'K,' to see if it can substitute for morphine. 'With morphine, the soldier's just gorfed, he can't do anything,' Col. Bob Vandre, of the Army's Medical Research and Materiel Command, told me as I stopped by his booth -- a mock MASH tent -- at the Army Science Conference. 'With this, he can drive his truck, or shoot his gun.'"

(Via Defense Tech.)