Emerging health threats journal

The epidemiology and patterns of acute and chronic toxicity associated with recreational ketamine use.

Emerging health threats journal April 15, 2011 Sarbjeet S Kalsi, David M Wood, Paul I Dargan

Ketamine was originally synthesised for use as a dissociative anaesthetic, and it remains widely used legitimately for this indication. However, there is increasing evidence of non-medical recreational use of ketamine, particularly in individuals who frequent the night-time economy. The population-level and sub-population (clubbers) prevalence of recreational use of ketamine is not known but is...