Ketamine use: a review.

@article{Morgan2012KetamineUA,
  title={Ketamine use: a review.},
  author={C. Morgan and H. Curran},
  journal={Addiction},
  year={2012},
  volume={107 1},
  pages={
          27-38
        }
}
AIMS Ketamine remains an important medicine in both specialist anaesthesia and aspects of pain management. [...] Key MethodMETHOD The literature on ketamine was systematically searched and findings were classified into the matrix of Nutt et al.'s (2007) rational scale for assessing the harms of psychoactive substances. RESULTS A major physical harm is ketamine induced ulcerative cystitis which, although its aetiology is unclear, seems particularly associated with chronic, frequent use of the drug. Frequent…Expand
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