DR MAX PEMBERTON: What to do if your child is in a ketamine 'K-Hole'

Over the past few years working shifts in A&E dealing with patients with mental health problems, I've been struck by the growing number who have come in under the influence of the illegal 'rave drug' ketamine.

From something I hardly ever saw when I first started working as a doctor, it has become, in the past decade or so, a regular occurrence. I was working last weekend and saw three patients in one single night shift. All of them were students and all of them had been brought in after they took too much ketamine and became unresponsive – in effect, passed out.

It's shocking how quickly it has become the drug of choice among young people, yet most of the older generation know very little about it.

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