The rise of ketamine addiction in the UK

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The Guardian

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🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Journalist Elle Hunt and recovered addict Jack Curran talk about the rise of ketamine use in Britain and its sometimes devastating impact. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:09.6	Today, Ket cramps and a shrinking bladder.
0:13.6	Life with a ketamine addiction.
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1:03.3	A quick warning before we start, this episode contains a reference to suicide.
1:14.5	You know what, looking back, I grew up with love, compassion, nurturing, maybe more for my mum. My dad was more outworking, long hours, long shifts, working away. But he would always be
1:20.8	there when I needed him. Jack Curran had a happy childhood, growing up obsessed with sport in
1:26.8	South East London.
1:28.3	The sport was something that I constantly thought about, constantly done, football from probably
1:34.1	six or seven, up to where I found cricket and boxing when I reached secondary school.
1:39.1	And that was what I obsessed over as a kid.
1:43.3	Like many teenagers, he started experimenting with drugs. So, yeah, started
1:48.4	off with cannabis about year 11. Still done well in school. Nothing consequential really happened then
1:55.4	other than my sport started deteriorating. So instead of going to boxing, where it would be training,
2:02.1	I'll pretend I'm going to boxing to my mum and dad, and then I'd go out with my friends,
2:05.9	in the alleyways, in the streets, just smoking weed.
2:09.5	Drugs became a normal part of a good night out.
2:12.7	In my group of friends, that was normalised using drugs, whether it be cocaine, ketamine, cannabis.
2:18.3	And that age from, say, 15 to 19, going raving, partying, they were the good years of using drugs.
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