Special K. K-land. Or even "baby food," because "users sink into a blissful, infantile inertia," the Drug Enforcement Agency says — ketamine is best known as an club drug here in the U.S.
Most recently, ketamine played an integral role in HBO's summer murder mystery "The Night Of" — Andrea and Naz took some and hooked up. He blacked out and awoke to find her stabbed to death in her bed. And he doesn't remember if he did it.
But in many countries around the world, the hallucinogen has another purpose: It's the only drug available to sedate people during surgeries or to help with pain after operations.
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