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veggie

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[UK] Hospitals battle with epidemic of 'Special K' victims suffering with weak bladders
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Hospitals battle with epidemic of party drug 'Special K' victims suffering with weak bladders October 3, 2010 - dailymail.co.uk
Doctors are reporting a huge rise in the number of young people being treated in hospital for the hidden effects of party drug ketamine.
They say the number of young people developing bladder problems due to prolonged use of the drug has doubled in the past two years.
Ketamine is widely used as an anaesthetic for horses but has become popular among nightclubbers in the past five years owing to its hallucinogenic effects.
Known as K, Special K and ‘kiddie smack’, it is about half the price of cocaine and is categorised as a class C drug, which means that, legally, it is regarded less seriously than ecstasy or cannabis.
Adrian Joyce, president of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and consultant urologist at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds, said the toxic effect of ketamine was to markedly reduce bladder capacity.
The first question he now asks patients in their early 20s who need treatment for bladder problems is whether they have ever taken ketamine.
He said that until a few years ago it was rare for specialists to come across a case of a young person with bladder problems of this type. Now, he says, some ketamine users have needed the kind of bladder-stretching operations more commonly performed on people in their 60s.
Because specialists see only the most severe cases, Mr Joyce believes it is likely that many more young people are storing up serious problems for later in life.
He said: ‘The numbers are spiralling and for urologists to see people in this age group is very worrying indeed. The long-term consequences are serious, including the development of a small, contracted bladder and kidney failure – often irreversible – with the need for major reconstructive surgery to restore bladder capacity and to try to preserve kidney function.
‘This has major consequences for the rest of their lives and it is storing up a generation of problems.’
According to the 2009/10 British Crime Survey, 1.7 per cent of people aged between 16 and 24 in England and Wales used ketamine last year. Ken Checinski, of the drug treatment charity Addaction, said: ‘There is anecdotal evidence that ketamine is becoming more widespread, particularly in the economic downturn.’
In 2007, Professor David Nutt, who was last year sacked as chairman of the Government’s drug advisory panel, published research which ranked ketamine as more harmful than cannabis and ecstasy.
A Home Office spokesman said there were no plans to reclassify ketamine.
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5-HT2A

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Re: [UK] Hospitals battle with epidemic of 'Special K' victims suffering with weak bladders [Re: veggie]
#13283305 - 10/03/10 10:16 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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The only menace making a "victim" here is the victim himself due to his irresponsibility/lack of information.
Anyone who thinks going around partially anesthetized for months at a time or longer is safe is already asleep.
I like K but I can't imagine getting into a drug I didn't know about.
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Re: [UK] Hospitals battle with epidemic of 'Special K' victims suffering with weak bladders [Re: 5-HT2A]
#13283488 - 10/03/10 11:06 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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i've only had bladder issues once, and it was from using 10 500mg vials in less then a week lol. i had severe bladder pain, burning urination and constantly needing to piss even though only a dribble would come out.
now, i use K more responsibly. only once a month at max, and only a couple hundred mg at that. i never want to deal with that again.
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Re: [UK] Hospitals battle with epidemic of 'Special K' victims suffering with weak bladders [Re: istandalone]
#13283546 - 10/03/10 11:23 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Why do I have a feeling that people are still going to do K, and dealers aren't going to slap a sticker on vials saying "WARNING: May cause sever bladder problems which may require surgery".
Oh yeah, cos it's illegal.
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Re: [UK] Hospitals battle with epidemic of 'Special K' victims suffering with weak bladders [Re: Green_T]
#13283873 - 10/03/10 12:32 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Where are the numbers damnit? How can we make an opinion based off of a factless article?
Also - you mean abusing some drugs has consequences??
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Re: [UK] Hospitals battle with epidemic of 'Special K' victims suffering with weak bladders [Re: Spiderwort]
#13284323 - 10/03/10 02:07 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Known as K, Special K and ‘kiddie smack’
You are shitting me...right?
K: The key that fits. No matter what it ever manages to do to my bladder, the things it has shown and done to me will remain priceless.
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Edited by Dutchie3k (10/04/10 08:33 AM)
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Re: [UK] Hospitals battle with epidemic of 'Special K' victims suffering with weak bladders [Re: veggie]
#13284422 - 10/03/10 02:26 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Does this bladder happen with other dissociative anesthetics? I know on high doses of dxm my brain forgets how to let my muscles relax so i can pee.
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Re: [UK] Hospitals battle with epidemic of 'Special K' victims suffering with weak bladders [Re: stew248]
#13284565 - 10/03/10 02:54 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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I remember Aquaket talking about extreme kidney pain and other scary sounding symptoms from abusing shitloads of K.
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Re: [UK] Hospitals battle with epidemic of 'Special K' victims suffering with weak bladders [Re: stew248]
#13286795 - 10/03/10 10:47 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Not being able to piss when I had to was half the reason I stopped using DXM.
That shit has so many side effects.
I've done some pretty hefty K binges, and the only thing I've noticed is contraction in my urethra when I piss. Just harder to get it all out. Seems I may pee a little more frequent too.
I don't use needles though, I wonder if injecting vs. snorting makes a difference.
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Re: [UK] Hospitals battle with epidemic of 'Special K' victims suffering with weak bladders [Re: vandago]
#13289295 - 10/04/10 03:59 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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K is seriously bad for your bladder.
These stories don't even sound too bad, wait until you're pissing blood, or better yet, pissing chunks of your fucking bladder itself
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Re: [UK] Hospitals battle with epidemic of 'Special K' victims suffering with weak bladders [Re: sh4d0ws]
#13289796 - 10/04/10 05:34 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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You know, back when we had just a ton of dope, all flavors before crack - very few people seemed to f*ck up or just keep destroying themselves. That seemed to go increasingly up with coke and speed era, to were it's like hordes of people just fuc*ing themselves. It is wierd and wild. The people who brought you dope were not like this.
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Re: [UK] Hospitals battle with epidemic of 'Special K' victims suffering with weak bladders [Re: veggie]
#13289827 - 10/04/10 05:40 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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And Coastard was on here a while ago saying that stuff was perfectly safe to do.
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