Ketamine Withdrawal

Warning signs of ketamine withdrawal have not been clearly established but may include nightmares, disorientation, and a sense of unreality. Ketamine hydrochloride, a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act, is a dissociative anesthetic that has a combination of stimulant, depressant, hallucinogenic, and analgesic properties.

Legally used as a preoperative veterinary anesthetic, it is abused for these properties and used to facilitate sexual assault. Common street names for ketamine include K, special K, ket, kit kat, vitamin K, purple, special la coke, cat valium, super acid, super C, lady K, super K, ketaject, and cat tranquilizers.

Distribution of liquid and powdered ketamine typically occurs among friends and acquaintances, most often at raves, nightclubs, and at private parties. Street sales of the drug are rare. Retail quantities of this drug in the powdered form (100 mg to 200 mg) typically are packaged in small glass vials, small plastic bags, and capsules as well as paper, glassine, or aluminum foil folds. Law enforcement reporting indicates that liquid ketamine can be purchased for $20 to $140 per 10-milliliter vial, while in its powdered form typically sells for $40 to $100 per gram.

Aside from the risk of dependence and addiction, ketamine use involves health risks that have not been thoroughly studied or well documented. Long-term use may induce personality changes, including paranoia and delusional thinking. Because ketamine is sometimes injected, infection can result from shared or dirty needles.

Attending a drug rehab to assist in one's ketamine withdrawal process and addiction recovery is highly suggested. Rehab helps by handling the physical and psychological ketamine withdrawal symptoms in addition to helping the addict learn to remain drug-free once they leave treatment.

Another advantage of ketamine withdrawal in a treatment center is the idea of displacement. When a person is taken out of their environment they can begin to break the bad habits they have acquired in their familiar life setting. If they used a lot of ketamine in their surrounding area they may find it difficult to become sober in that same area. What the treatment center offers them are tools in order to help them go back to their familiar environment and stay sober and strong.

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