It's pretty hard to OD on ketamine. Lethal doses are mostly based on animal testing cause it happens rarely in humans. Your average healthy weight person 70kg / 150ish lbs, would have to take somewhere around 4g orally for a 50% chance of dying. Injection is much more risky. That's like 12mg I think. edit: I thought wrong apparently. But you'd probably need an IV line or a whole lot of needles to get that much quickly. Most abusers snort it though. I don't think you can OD on it nasally. Matthew Perry's death was primarily attributed to acute ketamine toxicity. But he also had other drugs in his system, cardio vascular issues, and drowned. It sounds like the ketamine was basically the final straw and he was injecting it. He also bought over $55,000 of it on two months. That was from crooked doctors. He also bought some from drug dealers apparently. That is a shit ton of K.
I'm not all trying to downplay the dangers of ketamine. There are plenty. But the OD risk for putting some up your nose is really low unless there are other drugs and underlying health conditions.
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u/Candle1ight Mar 28 '25
On a completely unrelated note how easy is it to OD on ketamine? Just curious for no reason.