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How Does Ketamine Present a Problem to Society?

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How Does Ketamine Present a Problem to Society?

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Ketamine is becoming a bigger problem everyday. Teens and young adults of the ages 16-24 are finding and inhaling or injecting Ketamine at raves or other club-like parties. Ketamine is considered a date-rape drug.

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You could see a doctor, therapist, hypnosis, call a drug center, etc.

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Fast Heartbeat, High Blood Pressure, Speaking Or Making Sounds With The Voice, Confused, Delirium, Hallucination, Shaking Extremities, Abnormal Increase In Muscle Tone, Redness Of Skin, Throwing Up

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The more you use Ketamine, the more your tolerance builds up. You may double up on the amount your receiving each time you use the drug.When you have tolerance to Ketamine, you may have the ability to experience the “K-hole”, which is slang for how it feels when you take a high enough dose of Ketamine that your awareness of the world around you, and your control over your own body, become so profoundly impaired that you're temporarily unable to interact with others—or the world around you.

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Often club attenders and high school students use Ketamine.

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The urges to use the drug, often occur from a desire to feel its tranquil, hallucinogenic, and psychedelic effects, to escape reality and become disconnected from the user's true environment.

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Insomnia, depression,irritability, cravings, and flashbacks.

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Frequent state of distraction and/or drowsiness

Difficulty concentrating

Fatigue or lack of motivation

Reduced ability to feel physical pain

Loss of coordination

Slurred speech

Redness of the skin

Insomnia

Bladder pain

Incontinence

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short term- Hallucinations, Altered body image, Euphoria, Pain at injection site, Vomiting and nausea, altered hearing, Dizziness, Delirium, Blurred or double vision, Vivid dreams, Nightmares, Illusions, Impaired judgment, attention and memory, Involuntary eye movement, High blood pressure, Rapid heartbeat, Excessive salivation, Redness of the skin, known as erythema, Dysphasia, Psychomotor retardation, Blunted affect, and Psychotomimetic phenomenon.
Long term-Incontinence, Decreased bladder volume, Blood in the urine, Decreased bladder compliance, and Over activity in the muscle that controls bladder movement. This drug could make the user feel oblivious to reality and weaken their body to a possibly fatal state if used very often. The user will feel lively dream activity and will have sensory distortions and/or hallucinations.

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Ketamine is a medication mainly used for starting and maintaining anesthesia. It induces a trance-like state while providing pain relief, sedation, and memory loss. Other uses include for chronic pain, sedation in intensive care, and depression. It is used mostly by veterinarian and doctors on their patients during minor surgeries. Ketamine was invented by Parke-Davis in the early 1950’s. It was first tested on animals-more exactly monkeys. Ketamine comes as a white/ off-white powder or a clear liquid. Some street names are Cat tranquilizer, Cat Valium, Jet K, Kit Kat, Purple, Super K, Vitamin K, and best known, Special K.