Although recreational use of the dissociative anaesthetic drug ketamine is currently
increasing, little is known about the phenomenological aspects of its use. We therefore …

Aim: To (1) identify current patterns of non-medical ketamine use; and (2) identify potential
harms associated with non-medical ketamine use. Design: Cross sectional survey of lifetime …

Semistructured interviews were carried out with 20 illicit users of ketamine in Scotland.
Participants had used a wide range of illegal drugs. Scottish drug agencies reported limited …

This review describes the medical, research and recreational uses of ketamine, an
anaesthetic derivative of phencyclidine that has dissociative, analgesic and psychedelic …

Ketamine was developed in the 1960s and promoted as a dissociative anesthetic because
of its ability to induce a lack of responsive awareness not only to pain but to the general …

Aims Ketamine remains an important medicine in both specialist anaesthesia and aspects of
pain management. At the same time, its use as a recreational drug has spread in many parts …

Ketamine, a derivative of phencyclidine that was developed in the 1960s, is an anesthetic
and analgesic with hallucinogenic effects. In this paper, the pharmacological and …

Rationale Ketamine is a dissociative anaesthetic that is also a drug of abuse. Previous
studies have demonstrated persisting episodic and semantic memory impairments in …

Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic with an accepted place in human medicine. Ketamine
also has psychedelic properties, and there has been a recent increase in nonmedical use …

Introduction Preliminary research has indicated that recreational ketamine use may be
associated with marked cognitive impairments and elevated psychopathological symptoms …