Listen .......i worked in a drug rehab facility for years ......and i know all about addiction .... ...it starts ........ either by choice .......some babies are born addicts ......because their bastard parents ........were addicts .......however .......... it starts .....in life .......like everything else .....by choice..... or curiosity or low self worth or hatred .....sometimes people at parties get offered a hit or smoke or something ...they take it .....they like it ........but it's mostly self hatred ......escape fpor reality ......there is this old saying......"reality is for people who cannot handle drugs !! ......and drugs are for people who cannot handle reality" .......a lot of people turn to drugs for so called refuge/hide/avoid reality /culture .....whatever the reasons !! ......."sex drugs and rock and roll".......they there are lots of musicians that did not do drugs .....gene simmons was one ....... and he was KISS......in it for what it is !! ....a business ......but look at how many have died through drugs .....musical greatness !!!.....they had everything .....but they had no one....... nothing ,.......as they say ....... 'poor little rich kid" .........jackie onasiss ....... took drugs ...she had everything ......not ..sure what the fuck !!!!>......but life was not promised as easy.......all i learned from people in drug rehab facilties is...... it starts as a choice / cry for help / you know family problems /shitty families /too much money /boredom /lack of confidence ...........but deep down it goes to the root cause !! ...self loathing and hatred .......if you love yourself .....and........i am not talking narcissism .....true self respect in your life ......you do not need to escape .... no one said life was easy ...no!!!........ it's not none of us are getting out of here alive .......it's life !!!!!! ...and sadly ...look at this waste of life ........she needed locked up for a month ........no access to drugs....... just good food i guess no one to hl;p her .....just another death in the drugs epidemic !! ...incidentally where was her father ????...... ...no mention of that one !!!!...... see the mum ......looks like she failed ........ had she had a dad!!!!! ...... maybe better chance !!!!! .... ...girls need a father too ........a rock ......strength .....that is why the have daddy issues ......don't hate the player in life....... it's the game .....sad as it is .......ususally that is a factor ..... no dad ......you cannot replace him ......and she had a good job ....still many many factor cause drug addiction ........ but mostly it's choice .... ......no one holds a gun to your head .........and makes you take drugs !!!!!!......i mean the chance of that .....is very..... very..... very rare .....its a great excuse ....... but no !!!!!.....the old appendage in life........ as they say ......and of course who are they??? .....curiosity kills the proverbial cat .....curiosity can lead you some down of life's dark corridor ......well i have never understood the great hype about K ........it was apparently to tranquilize horses!!!!!! .....i mean FFS!!!!!!!!......you got to know ...... that shit is bad ...... if it tranquilizes a fucking horse ........ does not take to much brains to figure that shit out !!!!!!! ........well here is the great results you get from KETAMINE....yum yum....pigs bum....... as they say .....no thanks ......
KETAMINE...........
KETAMINE can lead to death by putting pressure on the heart and respiratory system.
But its other effects on the body, which are often irreversible, are horrifying, too.
“Ketamine bladder syndrome is one of the worst symptoms,” Dr Catherine Carney, an addiction specialist at Delamere, told Sun Health.
This is where the breakdown of ketamine in the body causes inflammation in the bladder wall.
It leaves people unable to hold urine and passing chunks of their bladder tissue.
Some users face the prospect of having their bladders removed entirely.
Dr Carney explains: “The lining of the bladder can shrink over time and be extremely painful for those experiencing it.
“This can often lead to lower abdominal pain and pain when passing urine, as well as bleeding.
“It’s usually what has forced people to get help because they can’t tolerate it any more.
“We’ve had young men in agony, wetting the bed.
“Their whole life is focused on where there’s a toilet because they can only hold urine for ten minutes.
“For a teenager or someone in their early 20s, that’s absolutely life-changing.
“In some cases, the bladder damage progresses to the kidneys and people get kidney failure, too.
“This is developing in people who have been using for two years, so it is relatively quick.”
Dr Carney adds that the urine samples of new guests checking into the clinic are often just a “pot of blood”.
This is followed by weeks of agony coming off the drug. An irony of ketamine use is people tend to take more and more to numb the pain of the side-effects it causes.
Dr Carney says: “There’s nothing that we can give which is as strong as a medical anaesthetic (the ketamine). We can use codeine-based products or anti-inflammatories.
“Some antidepressants help at night, but the pain is hard to manage in the early days.
“Most people that come to us, the bladder will improve to the point that they don’t need to have it removed.
“But once you’ve got a bladder that has shrunk to the size of 70ml, that’s never getting better.”
Estate agent, 22, with ketamine addiction cried ‘I can’t do it anymore’ before dying after weight plummeted to just 5st
A TRAGIC estate agent with a ketamine addiction cried “I can’t do it anymore” before dying in agony, an inquest heard.
Isabelle Sapherson-Moralee, known as Izzy, died after her body shut down having spent five years taking the class B drug.
Her devastated mum Ann Moralee battled for 18 months to get help for Izzy and tried warning health officials that her daughter would die from it.
An inquest heard Izzy suffered from chronic pain and a damaged bladder due to her addiction that cost £500-a-month in incontinence pads.
Her weight also plummeted to just 5st 9lb and she was described as being pale, gaunt, emaciated and malnourished.
Two days before she died, she “went home to die” after she discharged herself from hospital.
While being cared for by her mum, Ann begged her daughter to let her call her an ambulance.
She told the inquest: “I kept asking her, please let me phone an ambulance but she said, ‘No more hospitals Mum, I can’t do it anymore’.
“She knew she was dying that last 48 hours.
“She died 36 hours after she got home. She was freezing cold, shallow breathing. I checked on her and she was cold.”
THE TOLL 'K' TAKES ON YOUR BODY
KETAMINE can lead to death by putting pressure on the heart and respiratory system.
But its other effects on the body, which are often irreversible, are horrifying, too.
“Ketamine bladder syndrome is one of the worst symptoms,” Dr Catherine Carney, an addiction specialist at Delamere, told Sun Health.
This is where the breakdown of ketamine in the body causes inflammation in the bladder wall.
It leaves people unable to hold urine and passing chunks of their bladder tissue.
Some users face the prospect of having their bladders removed entirely.
Dr Carney explains: “The lining of the bladder can shrink over time and be extremely painful for those experiencing it.
“This can often lead to lower abdominal pain and pain when passing urine, as well as bleeding.
“It’s usually what has forced people to get help because they can’t tolerate it any more.
“We’ve had young men in agony, wetting the bed.
“Their whole life is focused on where there’s a toilet because they can only hold urine for ten minutes.
“For a teenager or someone in their early 20s, that’s absolutely life-changing.
“In some cases, the bladder damage progresses to the kidneys and people get kidney failure, too.
“This is developing in people who have been using for two years, so it is relatively quick.”
Dr Carney adds that the urine samples of new guests checking into the clinic are often just a “pot of blood”.
This is followed by weeks of agony coming off the drug. An irony of ketamine use is people tend to take more and more to numb the pain of the side-effects it causes.
Dr Carney says: “There’s nothing that we can give which is as strong as a medical anaesthetic (the ketamine). We can use codeine-based products or anti-inflammatories.
“Some antidepressants help at night, but the pain is hard to manage in the early days.
“Most people that come to us, the bladder will improve to the point that they don’t need to have it removed.
“But once you’ve got a bladder that has shrunk to the size of 70ml, that’s never getting better.”
Ann, a flight attendant and former nurse, gave her daughter CPR in a heartbreaking bid to save her.
She added: “I have saved a lot of lives in my career, both as a nurse and flight attendant, but ultimately I couldn’t save my daughter.”
Izzy, who worked as an estate agent, started taking the drug regularly during the Covid lockdown in 2020 when she moved in with her boyfriend.
Ann, from Wimborne, Dorset, said she did not discover her daughter had been using ketamine until the end of 2023 when it had gotten “out of control and she couldn’t hide it anymore”.
The drug use had damaged Izzy’s bladder and caused her to become incontinent about a year before she died.
Her mother said it was so bad she spent £500 a month on incontinence pads and Izzy had to stop working about six months before her death.
Ann told the inquest she felt health officials could have done more to help her daughter and had “missed opportunities”.
After a bad experience with a urologist at Salisbury District Hospital who Ann claimed was “vile” to Izzy, she said her daughter no longer trusted doctors.
She added: “She was just seen as a ketamine addict and everything else was ignored, especially her back pain.
“I spent up to £500 a month on incontinence pads, we asked for help from the bladder and bowel people but they discharged her, as did the weight-loss team who said she didn’t have an eating disorder. Then she really just gave up.”
Ann said she tried to get her daughter into rehab using her private medical insurance and looked at going to America for treatment.
She told the court there was a “last chance” to save her daughter when she was arrested for suspected ketamine possession.
Despite Izzy struggling to walk and becoming disorientated, she was not sectioned under the Mental Health Act – a decision Ann did not agree with.
Izzy was admitted to hospital in March but even then and despite her poor health she was still able to get hold of and take ketamine.
A month later, she was admitted to A&E before discharging herself.
Ann said: “I kept asking Izzy, ‘Please let me phone the ambulance’. She said, ‘No more hospitals Mum, I just want to be at home with you, I can’t do it anymore’.
“So I made her hot water bottles, made her some French toast, she didn’t eat much.”
When the family’s lawyer asked if Izzy wanted to get better, Ann replied: “Yes, she said, ‘I’m going to get better, I’m going to do a psychology course then I want to help other children like me.
“‘Nobody should have to go through what I have been through.’ Her goal was to get better.”
Izzy’s cause of death was given as respiratory depression due to combined severe morphine and gabapentin toxicity.
Both pain drugs showed higher than normal therapeutic levels in her blood and the gabapentin would have exacerbated the toxic effects of the morphine.
The post mortem examination also found she had biliary sepsis, localised sepsis in the liver, which may have been a contributing factor but did not cause her death.
The inquest continues.
