Occasional and Continuous Ketamine Users: Consumption Rules and Harm Reduction Strategies
Objectives: To describe the phenomenology of ketamine use; to identify feared/unwanted consequences due to the use of ketamine; to identify any common ketamine consumption rules. Methods: A semi-structured questionnaire was administered to a sample of 48 (31.3% female) substance users living in Ita...
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Objectives: To describe the phenomenology of ketamine use; to identify feared/unwanted consequences due to the use of ketamine; to identify any common ketamine consumption rules.
Methods: A semi-structured questionnaire was administered to a sample of 48 (31.3% female) substance users living in Italy with recent use of ketamine (last 12 months) and who have never referred to an Addiction Service.
Results: From the results aspects emerge related to particular strategies implemented by interviewees to reduce the impact of ketamine consumption on their health, in everyday life and within social relationships: 1) ketamine consumption and purchase were primarily based on friendship networks and trusted relationships; 2) techniques of camouflage were adopted to keep the consumer status secret; 3) artisan controls to verify the quality of the substances were common; 4) general consumption rules were implemented to avoid unwanted consequences due to the use of ketamine.
Conclusions: The control of ketamine consumption is a complex practice that includes various aspects related not only to the knowledge of the substance, to the dosing-related harm reduction strategies, to the consumption setting, and to the consumer’s psycho-physical state, but also to the choice of people to buy from and consume with.
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| spelling | doaj-art-af4a2e20fd49468b8aee7fbdc6563f742025-08-20T02:08:36ZengMilano University PressEpidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health2282-09302024-11-0119210.54103/2282-0930/26983Occasional and Continuous Ketamine Users: Consumption Rules and Harm Reduction StrategiesRaimondo Pavarin0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1403-3148University of Bologna Objectives: To describe the phenomenology of ketamine use; to identify feared/unwanted consequences due to the use of ketamine; to identify any common ketamine consumption rules. Methods: A semi-structured questionnaire was administered to a sample of 48 (31.3% female) substance users living in Italy with recent use of ketamine (last 12 months) and who have never referred to an Addiction Service. Results: From the results aspects emerge related to particular strategies implemented by interviewees to reduce the impact of ketamine consumption on their health, in everyday life and within social relationships: 1) ketamine consumption and purchase were primarily based on friendship networks and trusted relationships; 2) techniques of camouflage were adopted to keep the consumer status secret; 3) artisan controls to verify the quality of the substances were common; 4) general consumption rules were implemented to avoid unwanted consequences due to the use of ketamine. Conclusions: The control of ketamine consumption is a complex practice that includes various aspects related not only to the knowledge of the substance, to the dosing-related harm reduction strategies, to the consumption setting, and to the consumer’s psycho-physical state, but also to the choice of people to buy from and consume with. https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/ebph/article/view/26983substance useketamineconsumption rulesharm reduction strategies |
| spellingShingle | Raimondo Pavarin Occasional and Continuous Ketamine Users: Consumption Rules and Harm Reduction Strategies Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health substance use ketamine consumption rules harm reduction strategies |
| title | Occasional and Continuous Ketamine Users: Consumption Rules and Harm Reduction Strategies |
| title_full | Occasional and Continuous Ketamine Users: Consumption Rules and Harm Reduction Strategies |
| title_fullStr | Occasional and Continuous Ketamine Users: Consumption Rules and Harm Reduction Strategies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Occasional and Continuous Ketamine Users: Consumption Rules and Harm Reduction Strategies |
| title_short | Occasional and Continuous Ketamine Users: Consumption Rules and Harm Reduction Strategies |
| title_sort | occasional and continuous ketamine users consumption rules and harm reduction strategies |
| topic | substance use ketamine consumption rules harm reduction strategies |
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