NHS opens the very first ketamine clinic for children – children as young as 12 left in the hospital admitted by toxic effects of party drug

The NHS has launched the very first Ketamine Teen-addiction clinic of the UK, amid an increase in young people who are addicted to the spiritual drug.

Doctors in Alder Hay Children’s Hospital in Liverpool opened the service last month after seeing ‘increasing numbers’ children who attended A&E, including such a young as 12.

According to the specialized doctors, teenagers were left of blood in their urine and even the bed often wet as a result of taking the medicine.

The service is intended to treat the symptoms of the ketamine abuse and to advise children on tackling dependence.

Experts nowadays warned that the medicine, known as’ K ‘or’ Special K ‘, is increasingly available in some schools, as well as in the community’.

It comes when the dangers of ketamine are thrown into the spotlight by the recent death of various celebrities.

Include Rupaul’s Drag Race Star the Vivienne, who had a cardiac arrest after taking ketamine, and friends actor Matthew Perry – whose death The age of 54 in 2023 was caused by the ‘Acute effects’ of ketamine and the opioid buprenorphine.

The drug is also an ingredient in ‘Pink Cocaine’, which had taken One Direction star Liam Payne before he fell from a balcony in Argentina last year.

He suffered from ‘multiple traumas’ and ‘internal and external bleeding’ from autumn.

Spend against BBC Radio 5 Live BreakfastHarriet Corbett, a children’s neurologist adviser in Alder Hay Children’s Hospital who helped set up the service, said: ‘Unfortunately, our youngest referral was for a patient who was 12, we see many of 14 and 15-year-olds.

‘There is an increasing number of younger than 16 years and that is why we had to set up a clinic.

‘Nobody else as far as we know is just seeing as many children in that age group.

‘We know that it is also available in some schools and in the community. Parents can really be sad and desperate. ‘

She added: ‘An increasing number of patients mainly come to the Emergency Department with symptoms of their ketamine use and they are increasingly coming out of the bladder.

‘They really struggle because their bladder cannot hold enough urine and often also pass blood in their urine and have to get up at night, sometimes wet the bed.

‘Those are pretty painful symptoms for the children.

It comes when the dangers of ketamine are thrown into the spotlight by the recent death of various celebrities. These include Rupaul’s Drag Race Star the Vivienne, who had a cardiac arrest after taking ketamine

Now in an attempt to increase the consciousness of Ketamine’s dangers, his family said that James loved his first addiction and relapse secret. The Vivienne here with his sister Chanel and comedian Omid Djalili

‘Ketamine is concentrated in the urine and is then absorbed by the bladder wall and ensures that it becomes inflamed.

‘That makes the bladder wall very stiff over time and cannot extend the way it would normally.

“Ketamine can cause permanent damage, so we want to see the children so early to explain what it can do and what the long -term image of the use of ketamine looks like.”

Last figures released by the Office for National Statistics (us), last year show one in twenty (4.8 percent) 20 to 24-year-olds in England and Wales admitted to take the drug.

This is despite the fact that more and more other types of drugs shun, including cannabis, cocaine and mdma, also known as ecstasy.

Almost seven percent of today’s 16-24 year olds have experimented with ‘Ket’, often at Raves for every night.

The figures from the government also show that the use of ketamines has risen by 85 percent in just one year between 2023 and 2024.

But deaths with regard to the medicine are also a shocking 650 percent in 2015 and now on average about one per week, according to ours.

Here we reveal how the substance-now used in private clinics because of the alleged antidepressant effect-effects can damage an hour after taking a big hit on the body, so that users are unable to breathe and suffocate in their own vomit

Despite these threats, users of social media regularly make the light of its effects with a trend for videos that show users in ‘K-Holes’-the dissociate state associated with heavy use.

Experts have long warned that the rising ketamine use is powered by both affordability and availability.

It is thought that it costs around £ 20 per gram compared to £ 40 per gram for MDMA and £ 100 for cocaine.

The medicine, which is supplied as a powder and is usually sniffed, can lead to a relaxed and dreamy feeling, but taking too much can cause temporary paralysis.

Use in the longer term can lead to memory loss, psychological problems and organ damage.

It is known that tolerance for the drug is quickly built up.

This means that users need more and more to feel the same high, which increases the risk of an overdose or experiences adverse side effects.

It works as an anesthesia by blocking the neurotransmitter N-Methyl-D aspartate (NDMA), which controls actions in the nervous system.