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Ketamine hydrochloride, or
"Special K," is a powerful hallucinogen widely used as an
animal tranquilizer by veterinarians. Users sometimes call the high
caused by Special K, "K hole," and describe profound
hallucinations that include visual distortions and a lost sense of
time, sense, and identity. The high can last from a half-hour to 2
hours. The Drug Enforcement Administration reports that overt
effects can last an hour but the drug can still affect the body for
up to 24 hours.
Use of Special K can result in
profound physical and mental problems including delirium, amnesia,
impaired motor function and potentially fatal respiratory problems.
Special K is a powder. The drug is
usually snorted, but is sometimes sprinkled on tobacco or marijuana
and smoked. Special K is frequently used in combination with other
drugs, such as ecstasy, heroin or cocaine.
Liquid Ketamine was developed in the
early 1960s as an anesthetic for surgeries, and was used on the
battlefields of Vietnam as an anesthetic. Powdered Ketamine emerged
as a recreational drug in the 1970s, and was known as "Vitamin
K" in the 1980s. It resurfaced in the 1990s rave scene as
"Special K."
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