HealthDay (2/13) reports, “Ketamine use among electronic dance music party-goers is much higher than previously thought,” with “unintentional use” appearing “to play a role,” investigators concluded after surveying “hundreds of adults entering electronic dance music parties in New York City about their past-year drug use.” Some 200 people “provided hair samples that were analyzed to detect drug use in the past 12 months.” These hair analyses showed that even though nearly “15 percent of the party-goers said they’d used ketamine in the past year, the hair analyses showed that about 37% tested positive for ketamine,” indicating that “when both self-reported use and hair testing are taken into consideration, actual ketamine use among these party-goers is closer to 41%.” The findings were published online Jan. 29 in a research letter in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Related Links:
— “Use of Club Drug ‘Special K’ Could Be Underreported, “Robert Preidt, HealthDay, February 13, 2020