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.

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

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 ...

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

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

A CUMBRIAN man has issued a powerful message to drug users after he managed to overcome his addiction to ketamine.

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 class B drug has some very nasty effects on the body ...

The UK drug advisory has revealed its decision about whether the drug should remain a class B ...

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

Francis Ventre, was involved in a conspiracy to supply cocaine and ketamine worth £479,500 ...