Ketamina decessi per ventune dal 2014 mentre gli esperti emettono un avvertimento di miscelazione dei farmaci
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ketamine-deaths-drugs-warning-kings-college-london-b2835700.html
di StGuthlac2025
Ketamina decessi per ventune dal 2014 mentre gli esperti emettono un avvertimento di miscelazione dei farmaci
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ketamine-deaths-drugs-warning-kings-college-london-b2835700.html
di StGuthlac2025
3 commenti
In the last 10 years it’s become more visible in mainstream culture.
Characters such as Musk openly publicising it has made it recognisable to a much younger generation.
Back in my clubbing days 20+ years ago it was around but it wasn’t everywhere. It was also mainly an after party thing and we rarely drank too.
The trend to be on it all day/night in small doses is likely to cause harm that we don’t understand yet plus not everyone is going to be able to control their dosage especially in an environment where they have to hide the use of it.
It’s not surprising. It’s a horrible drug that destroys your body, but it also acts as a relatively cheap (until you develop a horrible habit), instant anti-depressant (an *incredibly* good one as well) and the anti-depressant/anti-anxiety effects can last for a few days afterwards. When your only other option is to spend months, sometimes years battling with the NHS to try the dozens of different SSRI/SNRIs with sometimes horrendous side effects until you find one that works (if you ever do), it isn’t surprising that young people turn to something else.
Reclassifying Ketamine won’t do shit, tackling the causes of youth mental health problems and the reasons people turn to these drugs in the first place is the only thing that will work.
I also find it funny how the article (or the article it links to, couldn’t read this one without registering) says they can’t understand why people take it as a party drug, then goes on to say “in small doses it makes the user feel drunk”. Well, that’s why. A small line can make you feel happy and pissed and will be cheaper than alcohol unless you have a high tolerance.
Putting it in class A is ridiculous. 696 deaths in 25 years, for a drug being used by hundreds of thousands of people, while tragic, doesn’t make it a class A.
The class system, which is already nonsensical, would be made even more absurd.
Meth, heroin, ketamine, MDMA and magic mushrooms all being in the same class, the class that is the “most dangerous” is making a mockery of an already ridiculous system.
Though I suppose it does continue to bring the class system in line with what it is – a political and vibe based system, but its not and probably never has been based on harm, so in the way that its nonsense, it does make sense.
They just need to admit and drop any reference to harm. Drugs are classified based on political decisions, take the pretence of harm out of it.