KETAMINE INCLUDED IN LIST OF CONTROLLED C

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KETAMINE INCLUDED IN LIST OF CONTROLLED CHEMICALS


The Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) has included ketamine, an anesthetic, in its list of "Controlled Precursors and Essential Chemicals (CPEC)"


after becoming popular among drug abusers.


In a resolution, the DDB reclassified ketamine as a controlled drug from a prescription drug following a study conducted by the Board's Technical Working Group and upon the recommendation of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).


Ketamine hydrochloride is a "non-barbiturate, rapid acting disassociative anesthetic drug used on both animals and human beings."


The drug is used for short procedures in human pediatric burns or animal wounds. It is also being used in experimental psychotherapy.


The DDB, however, said that ketamine is now being used by young people as an alternative to shabu and ecstasy, which are both prohibited in the country.


DDB Senior Undersecretary Dionisio Santiago noted that the effects of ketamine if not properly used could range from "rapture to paranoia."


"The user feels its hallucinogenic effects and experiences impaired perception and ketamine commonly elicits an out-of-body or near-death experience, it can even render the user comatose," he added.


The move to regulate ketamine was bolstered by the seizure of P2 million worth of the drug in a police raid in Quezon City recently.


In 2003, operatives of the PDEA and the Bureau of Food and Drugs also seized some 7,000 vials of liquid ketamine and one kilogram in powder form.


The DDB maintained that in countries like Hong Kong and Singapore, ketamine taken over ecstasy as the leading substance being abused by the youths.

[enquirewithin]

The Phillipines has recently introduced ridiculous draconian drug laws,
with the death penalty for dealing even marijuana (as I recall), due to
an overreaction to US presssure.



Ketamine is</span> a very popular club
drug in Hong Kong, although I have always found the idea of going to a
disco whilst on ketamine a very strange idea! People sniff small lines/
bumps and try not to reach the K-hole.

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KETAMINE SALE, USE NOW ILLEGAL


TO CURB its rising popularity among the youth, the Dangerous Drugs Board Sunday reclassified ketamine as a controlled substance, thus making its unauthorized possession a violation of the country's anti-drug laws.


The reclassification of ketamine or ketamine hydrochloride was prompted by a study conducted by DDB's Technical Working Group upon the recommendation of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) which showed that its unsupervised use was dangerous to those taking the drug.


The study noted that ketamine was fast becoming the drug of choice among young adults.


Ketamine is a non-barbiturate, rapid-acting disassociative anesthetic used on both animals and human beings. It is used as medicine for pediatric burns and in dentistry and experimental psychotherapy.


DDB executive director Senior Undersecretary Dionisio Santiago said the ill effects of ketamine ranged from "rapture to paranoia to boredom."


He said a ketamine user feels its hallucinogenic effects and experiences impaired perception.


"Ketamine also commonly elicits an out-of-body or near-death experience and can even render its user comatose," Santiago said.


In 2003, the PDEA and Bureau of Food and Drug personnel seized about 7,000 vials of liquid ketamine and one kilogram of ketamine powder somewhere in southern Metro Manila.

[Triple7]

Same shit is now happening within EU.