Ketamine is popular among teens and young adults to use recreationally at dance clubs and raves. It’s sometimes manufactured commercially as a powder or liquid. It comes in various forms, such as powder, liquids, or nasal sprays. It can be injected, taken orally, or inhaled. 

Ketamine is a fast-acting and effective medication that can be used as anesthesia or as sedative-hypnotic drugs like benzodiazepines to battle mental disorders or chronic pain. Unfortunately, sometimes it’s used to sedate someone, which may lead to the facilitation of sex crimes, which is why it’s considered a “date rape” drug.

How Do People Use Ketamine Recreationally?

Recreational users will take the liquid form of ketamine and inject it intravenously or heat it on a plate in the microwave, resulting in crystals forming. Then the drug is cut into fine particles like powder, looking similar to cocaine or methamphetamine, when chopped up and then snorted to generate the “high.” When injected, ketamine is immediately felt and remains until the drug wears off. Injecting ketamine, or any drug for that matter, without the proper guidance of a healthcare practitioner, is very dangerous and could even be fatal.

Why Do People Use Ketamine Recreationally?

Most people that use ketamine recreationally want to remove themselves from reality for a bit, and ketamine is pretty effective at that. Ketamine produces hallucinations ranging from euphorically fun to potentially terrifying. The drug distorts perceptions of sight and sound, which some say creates an “out-of-body experience,” taking a user away from reality. In contrast, “high” on the drug your body or reality is called a “K hole” by recreational users. The hallucinogenic effects last for short periods (30-90 minutes). Some hallucinogenic drugs like LSD, ayahuasca, psilocybin, peyote, PCP, MDMA, or mescaline can last 4 hours to several days

Street Names Of Ketamine

  • Special K
  • Cat Valium
  • Kit Kat
  • K
  • Super Acid
  • Super K
  • Purple
  • Special La Coke
  • Jet
  • Vitamin K
  • Ket
  • Keta
  • Horse Trank
  • Cat Tranquilizer
  • Jet K
  • Simply K
  • Ketamina

Ketamine is not your average party drug. It can produce feelings of unreality accompanied by visual and sensory distortions. People may get unusual thoughts or beliefs that make it feel like everything is altered somehow. A great example would be an individual abusing ketamine and walking through traffic without realizing cars are zooming by inches from where they are standing. They lose the perception of reality. A group of young male friends used it recreationally.

When one of them went into a “k-hole,” the other friends put makeup on the young man while his eyes were wide open, appearing to be awake. He couldn’t move, was dissociated, and had no awareness that people were putting makeup on them. Ketamine may cause hallucinations similar to other hallucinogenic substances, including LSD, PCP, and mescaline.

Gamma hydroxybutyrate (C4H8O3) (GHB) or Rohypnol® (roofies) are used recreationally for their amnesiac or sedative properties.

When abused, ketamine can have adverse effects on your mental health. The trip you experience while using ketamine can last between 1-2 hours, and reduced effects continue for up to eight hours. There are risks of unconsciousness and high blood pressure if taken incorrectly or with other medicines. Combined with alcohol, it could be fatal!