Journalist Elle Hunt and recovered addict Jack Curran talk about the rise of ketamine use in Britain and its sometimes devastating impact. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Ket cramps and a shrinking bladder.
Life with a ketamine addiction.
A quick warning before we start.
This episode contains a reference to suicide.
You know what, looking back, I grew up with love, compassion, nurturing, maybe more for my mum.
My dad was more out working long hours, long shifts, working away, but he would always be there when I needed him.
Jack Corrin had a happy childhood, growing up obsessed with sport.
In South East London.
Sport was something that I constantly thought about, constantly done football from probably six or seven up to where I found cricket and boxing when I reached secondary school.
And that was what I obsessed over as a kid.
Like many teenagers, he started experimenting with drugs.
So started off with Cannabis about year 11, still done well in school.
Nothing consequential really happened then, other than my sport started deteriorating.
So instead of going to boxing, where it would be training, I'd pretend I'm going boxing to my mum and dad and then I'd go out with my friends in the alleyways, in the streets, just smoking weed.
Drugs became a normal part of a.
Good night out in my group of friends that was normalised.
Using drugs, whether it be cocaine, ketamine, cannabis and that age from say, 15 to 19, going raving, partying, they were the good years of using drugs.
The mad thing is, I hated ketamine at first.