How to Use ketamine in a Sentence

ketamine

noun

• MacLean isn’t alone in weighing the pros and cons of ketamine.
  — Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• Is Shane the last straw, or has the ketamine addled his brain?
  — Lisa Liebman, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2021
• That leaves it to the patient to assess ketamine providers.
  — Dawn Megli | Kff Health News, ABC News, 31 Jan. 2024
• Evil dentists and ketamine queens lurk in the shadows, ready to jump-scare you.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
• The young waiter, high on ketamine, grabbed the wheel from Kendall and steered the car into a river.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2019
• Patients will be hooked up to an IV line to receive the ketamine.
  — Jane Stueckemann, Houston Chronicle, 9 July 2019
• The generic ketamine pills or lozenges are mailed to patients’ homes.
  — Brianna Abbott and Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• The bird had a total of 178 pills of ketamine, which is often used as a club drug, the BBC reported.
  — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 26 May 2017
• Paramedics later arrived at the scene and a medic gave McClain ketamine to sedate him.
  — Audrey McNamara, CBS News, 26 June 2020
• But the coroner did not rule out that the chokehold, in addition to the ketamine, may have contributed to his death.
  — NBC News, 15 Sep. 2021
• She was then held captive for six days in Italy, where she was given ketamine, stripped and handcuffed.
  — Katherine Lam, Fox News, 16 July 2018
• Before ketamine, Brekke could only think about making it through the day.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 17 Mar. 2023
• This does not explain the high levels of the drug in his system at the time of his death, as ketamine metabolizes in a few hours.
  — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
• The ketamine studies went off like a flare in the darkness, visible for miles and making headlines across the world.
  — Benedict Carey, STAT, 27 Mar. 2023
• The team found that ketamine had a similar effect on the astrocytes in mouse brains.
  — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 7 Jan. 2025
• Again, ketamine had the greatest overlap with NDEs in this type of analysis.
  — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2019
• This is why there's so much excitement around ketamine.
  — Moises Velasquez-Manoff, WIRED, 8 May 2018
• The new autopsy concluded McClain died of the too-high dose of ketamine.
  — Ashley Parker and Justine McDaniel, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2023
• The beloved Friends star died on Oct. 28 at 54 from the acute effects of the anesthetic ketamine, his autopsy revealed.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
• Will the arrests in Perry’s death burst L.A.’s ketamine bubble?
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
• To try to subdue him, paramedics injected him with 500 milligrams of ketamine, enough for someone close to twice his weight.
  — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
• Once the ketamine took hold, his mother took him to experience her birth and showed him the afterlife.
  — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• Researchers have discovered that ketamine, a drug of choice for club-goers for decades, can be used to fight severe cases of the blues.
  — Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• Paramedics called to the scene then injected McClain with the anesthetic ketamine.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 1 Sep. 2021
• That’s the way ketamine therapy is supposed to work, at least at L.A.’s top-tier ketamine clinics.
  — Jason McGahan, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
• Employees said ketamine was rarely used at the practice and diazepam was never used at the practice.
  — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2020
• Voll, Pearce’s attorney, said the women had used ketamine and cocaine at the rave before meeting his client.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
• Most of the ketamine was in powder form, which could raise the risk of being adulterated with deadly drugs such as fentanyl.
  — Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• This treatment is delivered through a nasal spray and relies not on ketamine, but one of its two primary components called esketamine.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2025
• Alcohol, ketamine and cocaine were found in Lee’s system, according to an autopsy report.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2025