Every parent's worst nightmare: how ketamine killed our daught

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Lisa O'Kelly
The Observer, Sunday 17 April 2011

With reader comments

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/apr/17/louise-cattell-parents-ketamine-campaign

Bright, popular, rebellious and creative, 21-year-old Louise Cattell had everything to live for. Then she made a fatal mistake. She took the party drug ketamine and was found dead in the bath by her flatmate. There are 125,000 other ketamine users in the UK. Louise's parents want to make sure it never happens to any of them…
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Then, just before his 8.30am meeting, Ross's phone rang with the news that would rip their world apart: Louise was dead, drowned in the bath after taking ketamine, the horse tranquilliser that is currently the "party drug" of choice among young people across the UK.
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torotorotoro
17 April 2011 12:32AM
this is a daily mail piece shame on you guardian
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damn thats sad i dont think the special k is what killed her it was the combo of that and drinking.. and then relaxing in a bath tub... anytime u do hard drugs like that u should have people with u to kinda take care of each other
 
you bet. i have a horse farm here in texas, and do a lot of my own vetting and have all my life. we have always had that stuff in the med-fridge in the barn. i've given many a shot, ( can't remember the cc's right now) but it'd drop a 2,000 lb. horse like a fly. one of the few drugs i never abused, guess i had a healthy fear of that shit....tragic.
 
maybeimamazing said:
you bet. i have a horse farm here in texas, and do a lot of my own vetting and have all my life. we have always had that stuff in the med-fridge in the barn. i've given many a shot, ( can't remember the cc's right now) but it'd drop a 2,000 lb. horse like a fly. one of the few drugs i never abused, guess i had a healthy fear of that shit....tragic.
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.......................Where's your barn..........................=D
 
Ketamine definitely isn't that dangerous on its own, you just have to be reponsible.
She was irresponsible and combined k and other downers and prob just passed out in the bath.
 
David Nutt, the former chairman of the British Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, suggested before he was sacked from his post in 2009 that ketamine should be upgraded from a class C drug due to the harm it can cause to users. However, Louise's parents are not convinced that a change in classification would have a great effect on the numbers of young people using it. Ross does not believe young people pay much attention to drug classifications anyway. "I think raising awareness is much more important than legislation. Young people need to be more risk-aware when it comes to ketamine," he says.
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Father, I am proud
 
Why do people think doing this in a bathtub is a good idea? If she had been drunk off her ass and in a bathtub she would still be dead...
 
that's a long article.

currently the "party drug" of choice among young people across the UK.
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psh. i thought you guys were all about ecstasy. writer just wanted to say "party drug of choice."
 
maybeimamazing said:
you bet. i have a horse farm here in texas, and do a lot of my own vetting and have all my life. we have always had that stuff in the med-fridge in the barn. i've given many a shot, ( can't remember the cc's right now) but it'd drop a 2,000 lb. horse like a fly. one of the few drugs i never abused, guess i had a healthy fear of that shit....tragic.
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I have to agree, i work at a vet and a horse farm and after watching animals on K I have never had any desire to try it, i have known people to have taken aceprome too and one idiot used to try to get high on banamine! and she wasnt even colicing! That was a bad joke sorry
 
ban bathtubs before k.

don't do sedating drugs in water you can drown in.. pretty simple

And what a bullshit title, k didn't kill her, water did
 
hydroazuanacaine said:
that's a long article.


psh. i thought you guys were all about ecstasy. writer just wanted to say "party drug of choice."
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You'd be surprised, there's plenty of people I know that choose K instead of ecstasy when they're on a night out.

Can't imagine why though, wouldn't want to feel like This guy in a club, lol. Many others I know are more for using K at afterparties when they're starting to come down off whatever they've had earlier.
 
suckerbunnie said:
Lol...no kidding. Um.....name and address please;)8)
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LOL!! TEXAS where else?? seriously, we've had stuff like that and many others that we get at the clinic at Tex. AM. i started experimenting with some things, but not K, a long time ago.
there were a few that were great, and kinda like taking a handful of valium. never tried the K, thught it was too strong at any dosage. cuz all of them were like 10cc's for a huge horse, so i thought like a drop would knock me out for a week! and i'm like 120lbs, not 2000. good thing, huh?
 
maybeimamazing said:
you bet. i have a horse farm here in texas, and do a lot of my own vetting and have all my life. we have always had that stuff in the med-fridge in the barn. i've given many a shot, ( can't remember the cc's right now) but it'd drop a 2,000 lb. horse like a fly. one of the few drugs i never abused, guess i had a healthy fear of that shit....tragic.
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Can i come stay with you? =D

But seriously ketamine is not very dangerous at all if you are responsible with it hell it does not seem to fuck my brain up nearly as bad as well alcohol. Also i love how they always call it a horse tranq and forget to mention that it's used in hospitals everyday as well.
 
Another anti-ketamine article. Although I agree it can be dangerous there are many more deaths from alcohol and Tobbaco.
 
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