Ketamine Awareness Campaign

22/11/2016

31/08/2016

A heroin antidote aimed at reducing drug-related deaths has been used in more than 1,065 overdose events in the past seven years, a report finds.

17/05/2016

04/05/2016

A teenage girl who died after taking an ecstasy pill known as “MasterCard” has been named as Faye Allen. The 17-year-old from Liverpool died after taking the drug at the Victoria Warehouse in Trafford. Greater Manchester Police have made two arrests as part of their investigati...

17/09/2015

“Our concern now is that people who over the years have been used to taking two or three tablets in a night might still do the same. With the purity, the results could be severe."

Tests show average pill now has 100mg of active ingredient MDMA, compared with 20-30mg seen a few years ago

17/09/2015

“A message I’m very keen to get across is that purity levels have increased”

Ecstasy, along with its dance music soundtrack, is enjoying a resurgence with a new generation of clubbers. Are they responding to the crackdown on legal highs or the fact that the quality of the drug is better than ever?

10/09/2015

"Some people may have cried, laughed or been shocked seeing the video. But this is what a tiny pill can do to you".

Amy Thomson's life was altered beyond recognition after she collapsed at an 'ecstasy party' in June at a house in Glasgow. The 16-year-old spent weeks fighting for her life in a coma.

29/05/2015

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/29/laughing-gas-government-legal-highs-nitrous-oxide

Selling nitrous oxide, the UK’s second most used recreational drug will be illegal under new legislation

29/05/2015

A new "blanket ban" on so-called legal highs will carry prison sentences of up to seven years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32919712

A new "blanket ban" on so-called legal highs will carry prison sentences of up to seven years, the government says.

28/05/2015

"To my horror, I found a jelly like substance in the toilet bowl. I started howling. What had I done to my body? That was it, I’d gone too far".

http://www.thesite.org/drink-and-drugs/drugs-a-z/ketamine-turned-my-pee-into-jelly-10213.html

When Jackie* started taking ketamine she didn’t expect to shrink her bladder to the size of a fifty pence piece.

21/05/2015

Five Lancaster University students are in hospital, two of them in a critical condition, after taking a synthetic cannabis substitute.