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 …

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 …

This is the second part of a review of the nonmedical use of ketamine. Part one discussed
the history of ketamine, the sought-after effects for which it is taken in a nonmedical context …

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

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

Ketamine is a non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist that acts as a dissociative
anaesthetic with analgesic and amnestic properties. Ketamine has broad areas of …

Ketamine, a dissociative anaesthetic in use since 1970, produces prominent psychoactive
effects in humans. Its non-medical use has raised concerns in many countries, including …

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 …

Ketamine was discovered in the 1960s and released for public use in 1970. Originally
developed as a safer alternative to phencyclidine, ketamine is primarily used in clinical …

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 …