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Showing how to do stuff in moderation. that s the key for it to be safer. but there is no way you re ever going to stop a country from doing drugs. at all. ever. rian did a stint in rehab, but relapsed not long after. he was living in a shared house, and in april 2023, was found dead in his bathroom at the age of 26. they found him in his shower, with the water still running. he d been there, potentially, three days. there was five bags of ketamine in his room. two were empty. he had pulmonary oedema and cerebral oedema. so, basically, his breathing slowed down so much that he just, you know, just died. i couldn t even see him because the condition of him was.he was unviewable, ....
He was.he was such a lovely boy. on every single parents evening i went to, he was the class clown, but he was the glue that brought all of his friends together. he was a really sociable, loving boy. clare s son, rian, first tried ketamine at a festival, but got addicted after his best friend, fraser, died in a car crash in 2018. that really hit him hard. that was, you know, the grief. i don t think he could deal with it. and i think at that point then, that s when he started doing ketamine a little bit more. he used to see fraser when he was under the influence of ketamine. i think it was his way of trying to get close to his best friend again. during the pandemic, rian s use started to escalate while he was off work. he was doing it every day. he didn t look like the son that i had. he went from. ..being such a happy. ..confident, clever boy ....
To this shell of a person. i didn t know who he was any more. it must have been incredibly difficult to see him like that, knowing that wasn t really rian. no. it wasn t him. it was the drugs talking. but i couldn t get through to him. no matter what i said to him, i literally could not get through to him. and we tried everything that we could to try and, you know, stop him from doing what he was doing. rian started to struggle with bladder issues as a result of his prolonged ketamine use and ended up going to rehab. he was walking into rehab like he was a 90 year old man, like on a.with a walking stick or hunched over, and his legs were bowed. he looked really, really poorly. government figures show ketamine addiction has more than quadrupled since 2016 in england and wales, and use is estimated to have more than doubled in that time. ....
Rian s inquest ruled he died from ketamine toxicity. deaths linked to ketamine are rare, but on the rise. in the uk, the numbers of drug related deaths following ketamine use have more than doubled in the last ten years. so this is our drug testing room. unlike rian, pagan managed to get help and has recovered after a 12 year addiction to ketamine. at her worst, she was taking more than 10g a day. it wasn t a nice experience. i was sick, dizzy and, like, kind of blacked out, so it wasn t very nice. i don t know why i carried on, but i did. and then i started injecting it into my muscles. and then that s when my bladder started to get bad. what s it like to look back now and think about your addiction when it was at its worst? i wanted to die. yeah. ijust didn t want to be alive any more. i didn t want to be in the world, in that pain, completely reliant on ketamine. ....
You know, and all i wanted to do was go and see him. i couldn t. since rian s death, clare has started a petition to get ketamine reclassified, and set up a facebook page with information and support. when rian was addicted to it, i was struggling to find all the information in one place, so that s why i set up a ketamine awareness facebook page so that i could gather all this information and put it into one place so that if there was somebody like me, you know, who s got a child who s addicted to the substance, they could just click on one facebook group and it s all there. going forward, what do you think is needed to tackle the increasing number of people using and being addicted to ketamine? you know, reclassify it so that people know how dangerous it is. get a tougher sentence for these dealers, but also support these people who are addicted to this drug, you know? ....