Ketamine
Ketamine hydrochloride is a dissociative anesthetic. It used as a short acting anesthetic for short surgical operations in medical and veterinary settings. Many people use it illegally because of it's hallucinogenic or psychedelic effects.
Ketamine is a drug which is used to facilitate sexual assault. It can also make a person feel they are detached from their body, as their mind leaves the body.
Ketamine changes the way of a person perceives the world, like other hallucinogens. It may affect all the senses of a person, alter thinking, sense of emotions and time of a person, and cause hallucinations.
Ketamine is a white crystalline powder. It can be in the form of tablets or pills which can be soluble in water and alcohol. It appears on the street as a white scored tablet. It can be sold like other drugs such as ecstasy.
It is often snorted, swallowed or injected. Also sometimes it is smoked with other substances such as tobacco or cannabis.
Effects of ketamine
Many people undergo very extreme undesirable reactions of ketamine that are sometimes known as bad trips. Higher doses produce an effect referred as k-hole, or an out of body or near to death experience.
Immediate effects of Ketamine
Below are the effects listed that may be experienced after taking mild to moderate doses of ketamine.
- constricted pupils
- blurred vision
- impaired motor coordination
- relaxation and euphoria
- feelings of dissociation
- confusion and difficulty concentrating
- disorganized thoughts
- thinking or maintaining attention
- hallucinations and distorted sensory processing, auditory, bodily, including visual, time and space perception
- agitation, anxiety, feelings of panic and paranoia
- slurred speech
- shallow and increased breathing rate
- increased blood pressure and heart rate
- sweating
- nausea and vomiting
- reduced sensitivity to pain and numbness of the extremities
Large quantities of ketamine can also cause:
- hostile, erratic and bizarre behavior
- drowsiness
- feelings of panic and terror
- depression
- anesthesia
- amnesia
- muscle rigidity
- increased body temperature or fever
- hypersalivation
- cardiac arrhythmia
- coma
- convulsions
- near death experience
- risk of accidents
Street names for Ketamine
Common street names for ketamine includes K, special K, jet, ket, super acid, kitkat, green, cat valium1