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The Dangers Of Ketamine Overdose

Ketamine (often called K or Special K) is a tranquilizer often used for medical and veterinary purposes, but it’s also used as a recreational drug. Ketamine overdose can occur very quickly, and can have permanent effects for the drug user that include:

Coma
Permanent psychosis
Damage to organs and tissues
Death

Death often occurs in unconscious ketamine users who seek a high known as the “k-hole.” This occurs right before the drug’s effects are significant enough to cause respiratory depression or central nervous system damage. Ketamine overdose is extremely serious and should be quickly treated by medical professionals. Learning about the drug and the signs of overdose is very important if you or someone you know takes ketamine for recreational purposes.

Treating a Ketamine Overdose

Treatment for a ketamine overdose will mainly consist of supportive care, which involves treating the symptoms that occur as a result of the overdose. For example, supportive treatment options for this type of overdose may include:

Close monitoring of heart rate and blood pressure
Benzodiazepine medications for agitation or seizures
Mechanical ventilation for severely decreased breathing.

It is important that you seek medical attention immediately if you believe that you or someone else may have used too much ketamine.

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"Ketamine can get very dangerous when mixed with other drugs. It stopped my breathing once when mixed with alcohol."

Anonymous

"I don't miss the fact that now when my lips move it is more than likely I am actually telling the truth."

Jane S

"I don't miss the fear that arose when I'm driving my car every time a police car hovers into view."

Steven

"My lowest point was when I realised I was stealing money from my daughters Christmas presents to fund my habit."

P. Gomez

"That's what made me think of stopping my drug habits - My Blood pressure spiked at 200/110 last week during a Panic Attack."

Maria

"Anyone being faced with the reality that their addiction needs to be conquered and their life will change is going to be scared."

Fatima

"You need to realize that the little voice in your head telling you to use is your own."

Maya

"Find out why you use, find out your triggers, and take it day by day. Any day clean is better than any day you’ve been high."

Ivan

"My goal in life wasn't living...it was getting high. I was falling in a downward spiral towards a point of no return"

John

"I ended up homeless and on the streets, living and sleeping in a cardboard box, begging and struggling to find ways to get my next meal."

Ben

"Now I see how important it is for me to be in control of every part of me. Today my body is being controlled by me. I am in the driver’s seat, and I’m driving with happiness."

Nathan

"Little did I know that my mom was upstairs crying every night that I came home late, crying because she was scared for my survival."

Nick

"All of my friends were doing Ketamine. It was everywhere. It was the most difficult tempting I have ever refused."

Ning Li

"Although I'm trying to get off this addiction his drug still calls me everyday."

Anonymous

"When you're young you can feel like you're invincible, but this clearly isn't the case."

(Rhian)

"The experiences were incredibly scary at times. At one point I felt like I had died on it."

Phil

"I would steal and lie just to get what I needed to get high."

Anonymous

"I was using round the clock 24 hours a day, and became seriously ill, i was in and out of hospitals and no matter what, i could not stop."

Lullah

"The worst part of Ketamine addiction is it's slow drain on your soul."

Anonymous

"Ketamine lead to my recent psychotic break."

Anonymous

"The worst thing that's ever happened through ketamine was sniffing so much of that dehydrated crystal that I lost my entire septum."

Anonymous

"Ketamine was the most psychologically addictive drug I have ever come in contact with and nearly killed me as well as sending me totally mad."

Keti

"I used ketamine to totally numb out the world, to reach oblivion."

Oscar

"I considered suicide many times, and seemed to only be content when I was wasted, leaving my problems behind. It took an overdose that left me throwing up and having convulsions on my couch, to wake me up."

Julio

"I had to stop all contact with using friends but have found amazing friendship in 12 step recovery."

Tanya

"Everyone said, 'Relapse is normal.' So I used it as an excuse to relapse! Relapse may be common, but it’s not a requirement!"

Edith

"Although I'm trying to get off this addiction and help myself in all the areas I need too… this drug still calls me everyday."

Tom

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