Can you overdose on ketamine?

Learn the risks of ketamine overdose, its potential effects on teenagers, and discover practical strategies for prevention in this comprehensive guide aimed at young readers.

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Understanding Ketamine: What You Need to Know Ketamine, often known colloquially as K or Special K, is a medication primarily used in veterinary and human medicine for starting and maintaining anaesthesia. However, because of its distinct hallucinogenic and dissociative properties, it's also used recreationally. The drug can induce a state often described as a trance-like state while providing pain relief, sedation, and memory loss. The Basics of Ketamine First used in the 1960s as an anaesthetic for surgeries, the use of ketamine has expanded, unfortunately, to recreational settings which raise significant health concerns, particularly among young people. It usually comes...
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