Ketamine Use In Tranquilizer Darts
The ability of ketamine to render the user unable to move or experience pain has resulted in a very effective use for the drug in animals—tranquilizer darts. Through a blowgun, rifle, or similar method, a dart or syringe loaded with a high dose of ketamine can be launched from a distance toward a large animal to incapacitate it for transport, research, or veterinary care. When the dart strikes the animal, it empties its content into the muscle (similar to an intramuscular injection in humans), and within minutes the animal is knocked out. Ketamine darts have been used by zookeepers, wild animal researchers, and veterinarians to tranquilize horses, bears, elephants, monkeys, tigers, lions, leopards, bobcats, mountain lions, large birds, poisonous snakes, and many other animals. Although ketamine causes the animal's muscles to become rigid, it retains its ability to breathe. Also, as in humans, the drug is metabolized very rapidly, and the effects wear off within an hour.
Obviously, we do not know what, if any, psychedelic experiences an animal may have in response to a ketamine dart. (Perhaps they experience K-Land and K-Hole just like humans.) Animals rarely become violent or agitated after being injected with ketamine, so it is unlikely to produce the psychotic symptoms observed in some human users.
the drug. As with other designer and club drugs, specific treatment programs for ketamine addiction have not yet been developed, although they might become needed if current trends of use and abuse continue.
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