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Ketamine Resources
Ketamine is a dissociative anaesthetic that has been used in medical settings since the 1960s. Its dissociative effects—such as detachment from reality, sensory distortion, and temporary paralysis—can be appealing to some users, but they also bring significant risks, particularly when used frequently or in high doses. Support workers may encounter individuals using ketamine occasionally, bingeing during social events, or using it daily to cope with trauma, mental health challenges, or other underlying issues. The impact of ketamine use can vary widely—from minimal disruption to daily life, to severe physical and psychological harm.
PLEASE NOTE: These documents and videos are intended for informational and guidance purposes only and does not constitute clinical or medical advice.
Our aim is to provide accurate, evidence-based information on ketamine to support safer choices and reduce harm.
PLEASE NOTE: These documents and videos are intended for informational and guidance purposes only and does not constitute clinical or medical advice.
Our aim is to provide accurate, evidence-based information on ketamine to support safer choices and reduce harm.
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Have you considered Ketamine Informed Design?
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A resource to support someone whose use is linked to the online world: buying it and using it.
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A ketamine staff resource to help support workers when working with ketamine users. This includes advice on how to use the ketamine toolkit.
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This is designed to be service user facing. Work through it together or give them this to take away. Suitable for young people and adults.
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This guide for parents and carers is a compassionate and informative tool to help people understand the substance and how best to respond to their children/young people who are using ketamine in a supportive and non-judgemental way.
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This is a suggested pathways for anyone working with ketamine users. This includes advice for suggested psychosocial approaches and clinical pathways.
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This is our Ketamine Withdrawal and Bladder Syndrome Assessment Scale. Although available as part of our toolkit/staff resource, you can also download a standalone version here.
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This guide helps to understand how ketamine can be used as a self-medicating tool for someone who is neurodivergent.
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This document provides further information for how ketamine impacts the brain via the NMDA receptors.
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This provides herbal remedy advice for those starting to feel the effects of ketamine on their body.
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This provides over the counter/suggested prescribing medication for those starting to feel the effects of ketamine on their body.
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This guide provides risks, dangers and harm reduction advice when using alongside alcohol and/or stimulants.
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This provides safer injecting information for users who are injecting ketamine (either intravenous or intramuscularly).
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This guide provides risks, dangers and harm reduction advice when using alongside opioids.
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This provides information to reduce the harms when preparing ketamine for injecting from its powdered form back into a liquid form.
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This guide provides information on what a ketamine overdose might look like and how best to support the individual experiencing this.
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This guide provides a suggested approach to detoxification based on the best evidence available. Please note, this is suggested guidance only and should not be seen as clinical guidance.
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This is a simple calculator tool that allows you to calculate how much a person is using in grams down into milligram dosing.
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This guide offers information on how to adapt environments and processes to offer safe, inclusive, and trauma-informed care for ketamine users.
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Other Drug Resources
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Please find our updated drug screening tool adapted from the DAST-10 (1982) screening tool focusing on route of administration.
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The following map (using the brilliant Drugs Wheel model www.drugswheel.com) helps you to build your harm reduction approach using the 7 key drug families.
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The following resource helps you when working with people who are using cannabis. Use it in key working/support sessions or any other suitable environment.
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The following resource was designed to help staff who are based in prisons supporting people who are struggling with their SCRA (spice) use.
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Trauma Informed Resources
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The following resource contains a full toolkit for when engaging with service users. This contains safety statements, engagement, safety planning, window of tolerance tools, grounding, self-soothing sand mindfulness and a range of staff guides.
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The following resource is designed to skill people up on what Vicarious Trauma is and how to respond to it individually and strategically.
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A specific tool can be used when supporting people access multiple services called a safety passport. The person can use this for every service they go to. It will ensure that they feel as safe as possible.
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The following resource helps you think about how you can maintain your boundaries when working in a trauma informed way to protect you and the other person.
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The following form is to help supervisors and supervisees have the best trauma informed supervision sessions possible. Use this is as or to modify your existing tools.
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The following guide helps services develop trauma informed policies and procedures for their service using a simple methodology.
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The following resource provides you with the key reflective practice models when implementing this process into your service.
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This worksheet is designed to help people understand what can get them out of their Window of Tolerance and what tools and techniques can keep them in it.
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Selected videos from our YouTube account @riskandresi:
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