"It's the most fun you can have for twenty quid": Motivations, consequences and meanings of British ketamine use

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 231-244

  Moore, Karenza ^a   Measham, Fiona ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intensity; Intoxication; Ketamine; Pleasure; Pleasure nexus; Sociability

Indexed keywords

EID: 45849102712     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066350801983681     Document Type: Article

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