Stevens, Calvin

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Calvin Stevens developed ketamine while working at Parke-Davis in 1961. It is used as a veterinary and human anesthetic, and is a Schedule 111 drug. It was widely used as a field anesthetic in the Vietnam War, and it entered the rave scene in the early 1990s. Ketamine has been used as a date rape drug. Street names include baby food, cat Valium, honey oil, jet, K, keets, ket, special K, super acid, super C, and vitamin K (Figure 10.1). Trade names are Ketalar , Ketajet , and Ketaset . 

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Ketamine (originally CI581) is discovered by Calvin Stevens of Wayne State University. 

The original name for ketamine was CI581. Its discovery is credited to Dr. Calvin Stevens of Wayne State University who isolated the compound in 1961. The pharmaceutical giant Parke-Davis funded its development as an alternative to the anesthetic phencyclidine or PCP. 

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Lebel, and Calvin L. Stevens, Organic Chemistry, 2d ed. (Worth, New York), 1976. 

Ketamine is a central-acting anesthetic and analgesic. It was developed by Calvin Stevens at Parke-Davis in 1962 in an effort to synthesize a drug with fewer side effects than phencyclidine and cyclohexamine. Ketamine was originally named C1581, and was patented in 1965 and sold under the trade name Ketalar. Ketamine was officially released for human use in 1970 and was used extensively during the Vietnam War [1]. 

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