The advice from the ACMD will now be considered "urgently" by the government before a final announcement is made.

Ketamine, a Class B substance, is used in clinical settings as an anaesthetic for people and animals - but it is also taken recreationally.

IT didn’t look like my baby anymore,” says Natalie Tolan. Her daughter Beth Ashton, 25, weighed less than her four-year-old ...

The UK government has been advised that ketamine should not be reclassified as a Class A drug by the Advisory Council on the ...

"In January 2025 the Government asked the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to provide an updated harms ...

Without parallel public health action, reclassifying ketamine risks being a symbolic gesture rather than a strategy to reduce harm, write Adam Winstock , David Nutt , and Caroline Copeland The UK ...

Ketamine will remain as a class B drug following a review which found its "acute harms align with its current class B status" ...

'Ketamine can be a killer and that is what youngsters need to know' ...

"I was in nappies, I was wetting myself. The fact I'm out of them is a massive achievement and something I never thought would happen." That's the relief of a 27-year-old woman who has finally been ...

Izabel Rose hoped a month in Japan would help her quit the drug - it did, but not in the way she expected.

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has today (28 January 2026) published its updated harms assessment of ketamine. The ACMD has ...

THE rise in ketamine and drug poisoning deaths is a ‘growing worry’ for police in Cumbria. Crimestoppers have called for the public’s support in tackling ketamine drug dealing in the county. The ...