(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) Ketamine

(JANUARY-2024)

Ketamine

• An actor recently passed away from the acute effects of ketamine.

About ketamine

• Ketamine is an anaesthetic that has been listed as a hallucinogen by the US Drug Enforcement
  Administration.
• It’s referred to as a “dissociative anaesthetic hallucinogen” because it creates a feeling of detachment from pain and the environment.
• In the US, ketamine was first used as an anaesthetic for animals in the 1960s.
• Around a decade later, the US Food and Drug Administration approved it for humans.
• The drug’s use for treating depression and other mental illnesses is recent.
• Owing to its powerful effects, ketamine is consumed by those patients who haven’t responded to traditional therapies.
• Ketamine is also used as a recreational drug, popularly known as K or Special K among club goers.

How is ketamine consumed?

• Mental illness patients usually take ketamine through an IV, nasal spray or tablet.
• Ketamine can also be injected or smoked.

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