An educational evening explaining the dangers of ketamine to Doncaster parents is to be held in the city tonight.

Ketamine is an anesthetic used to induce a loss of consciousness and relieve pain. ... General anesthesia denotes a sleep-like state, while dissociative refers to the effect of feeling disconnected.

It is referred to as a "dissociative anesthetic hallucinogen" because it creates a feeling of detachment from pain and the environment. Ketamine got its start as an anesthesia medicine for animals ...

Ketamine is in a drug class called dissociative anesthetics, and ketamine is specifically an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist.