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Ketamine, an anesthestic medication used for animals but also used by doctors for humans in some cases, has become an addiction problem; it’s considered to be a poor-man’s cocaine in some Asian countries and its use is spreading into the west.
Used as a party drug, young adults and teens (and reportedly children as young as 9 years old) snort the ketamine for a hallucinogenic high. Unfortunately, this temporary high comes at a very high cost for many people, resulting in life-long health issues, such as the inability to hold your urine for more than 15 minutes or so at a time.
According to this article, Asia’s party drug ketamine carries incontinence risk , that’s not all: “A recent study in Hong Kong of 97 drug users, most of whom primarily took ketamine, found that over 60 percent of them suffered depression, 31 percent complained of poor concentration and 23 percent had memory problems.”
The article ends with this warning:
“For ketamine, there is long term neurological and uterine complications, like having to go to the toilet every 15 minutes, bladder, kidney and liver problems. Colangitis, or inflammation of the bile duct, causes stomach pain and it could damage the liver in the long term.”
Is the risk worth it?
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