Ketamine use risks insufficiently recognised
Department of Health and Social Care received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 19 Aug 2025 and 18 Jun 2026.
They came from 2 different coroners. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 0 specific actions.
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“Ketamine is a controlled drug of class B. There is a perception in naïve users that this signifies "lesser" risks associated with using ketamine as compared with class A drugs.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department of Health and Social Care responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
- 10 months later
Raised again · 1st time
Isabelle Bridie Sapherson-Moralee↗
18 Jun 2026 · Brendan Joseph Allen · Dorset
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner“There is limited research on the addictiveness of ketamine and the consequences of chronic ketamine use.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department of Health and Social Care responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
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2025 → 2026Isabelle Bridie Sapherson-Moralee10 months after Gemma Weeks · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight that the risks and harms of ketamine use are insufficiently recognised or measured. They differ in focus: the earlier stresses public misperception due to its class B status, while the later calls for better data collection and research.
Gemma Weeks · 19 Aug 2025
“Ketamine is a controlled drug of class B. There is a perception in naïve users that this signifies "lesser" risks associated with using ketamine as compared with class A drugs.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Isabelle Bridie Sapherson-Moralee · 18 Jun 2026
“There is limited research on the addictiveness of ketamine and the consequences of chronic ketamine use.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
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- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Department of Health and Social Care at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 → 2026 | 0.67 | 0.24 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
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