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Ketamine

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Updated November 24, 2003

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Category:

Dissociative Anesthetics.

Commercial and Street Names:

Ketalar SV; cat Valiums, K, Special K, vitamin K.

How Administered:

Injected, snorted, smoked.

Intoxication Effects and Potential Health Consequences:

Increased heart rate and blood pressure, impaired motor function/memory loss; numbness; nausea/vomiting. At high doses, delirium, depression, respiratory depression and arrest.

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