Kétamine--Rèves et réalités.

AbstractKetamine is an anaesthetic used in human medicine and veterinary practice, synthesised on 1962 and marketed on 1970 in France.Recreational uses were described during 1992 in the medical communauty and in 1996 in the dance settings.The chemical name of ketamine is 2 - (2chlorophenyl) 2-(methylamine)-cyclohexanone, an aryl cyclohexylamine, structurally related to phencyclidine.Ketamine is known under the following street names : Keta K, Kate, Special K, Vitamine K, la Golden, la Veterinaire.Ketamine is used intranasally, orally and intramusculary in recreational use.Ketamine is manufactured by the chemical industry. Due to the complicated synthesis, it is sold illicitly for recreational use.Ketamine is a dissociative drug, and the user enters in a psychedelic dream with hallucinations, floating sensation, feeling of dissociation of the mind from the body.The dream is forgotten, the user fulls in reality with loss of self control, risk of acute intoxication.In long term exposure, tolerance, dependenc...