A woman who started taking ketamine while partying on the weekends has revealed how the drug took over her life – and saw her so addicted that she even sniffed it from her hospital bed as she was treated for its weakening side effects.

Talk to the BBC, Casey Innalls, from Portsmouth, who has her own Tiktok account that describes her experiences of retreating from the drug in an attempt to help others, says her father’s death when she was 18, her ketamine use saw spiral.

Innalls says that her dependence on Ketamine went from being something she can take at a festival to a regular weekend to a 14 gram-per day that “ruined my life”.

Her first video on her account @Kcskaddiction Shared in July last year and has since been followed up with often graphic images of how her body was affected by using it – including bloody mucus that she urinated due to the impact on the bladder.

Innall’s captions them: “These are some horrible photos about what I have taken out when I did ketamine because the bladder was damaged and so inflamed.”

Now in recovery, says the young woman when she was 20, she was full of her addiction.

Used medically as an anesthetic, it becomes Gen Z’s choice of drugs due to the feeling of euphoria that it generates, as well as experiences and hallucinations outside the body.

Casey, who describes the first time she took it as a 16-year-old at a house party, says she felt she “walked on the moon” and says Ketamine offers a “completely different feeling for many other drugs”.

Class B -Narcotic, sometimes administered in NHS for pain treatment and depression, developed in the 1960s and used as a battlefield anesthesia in the Vietnam War and as an animal trendquillizer.

Casey Innalls, from Portsmouth, shares its recovery from a ketamine addiction that took over her life on her tiktok -page, @kcskaddiction

The young woman, who spoke with BBC News, said she first tried the drug when she was only 16 years old and over the next four years it became so dependent on the drug ravaged her physical and mental health

She described how it feels to take the drug and said it often left her to feel that she “walked on the moon”

It was in the 1970s that it first became widespread at parties. But its use has become so common for the government to announce last month that it considered reclassification of ketamine as a Class A drug together with heroin.

Among 16 to 24-year-olds, the use has increased by 231 percent since March 2013 and is now at its highest level since 2006, when record began.

One in 20 in this age group said they had tried it in 2023, according to information from Office for National Statistics.

Known in general as’ ket ‘,’ K ‘,’ Special K ‘,’ Rainnetamine ‘or’ Calvin Klein (a cocktail of ketamine and cocaine) has risen its popularity due to its low price and simple availability. Ketamine was more than a quarter of drugs confiscated at festivals in 2023 in the UK.

With a gram that costs £ 10 to £ 30 – and about 30 to 75 mg that gives a single dose or “bolt” – users may be high for less than £ 2.

Usually consumed as a white powder, it is significantly cheaper than cocaine and MDMA, and cheaper even than vaping.

And it has long had a reputation among its users to be safe.

But the truth is that its use can lead to incontinence, kidney failure and shrinkage of bladder – which may require greater reconstructive surgery – plus memory loss, lack of muscle control, psychosis and depression.

James Boland, 38, from Manchester, died of sepsis caused by a kidney infection that was “a complication of prolonged use of ketamine”

Tracy Marelli, 48, said Ketamine “destroyed” her daughter Sophie Russell, 20, who died after a ketamine addiction

In some cases it can be fatal, especially when mixed with alcohol and other drugs.

In a Tiktok posted by Casey, she is sincere about how difficult it is to retreat and says that no one still talks about the most difficult parts of the recovery, especially the impact on mental health and says: ‘Everyone always thinks it is sunshine and rainbows. It’s not.

“This is where my brain takes me, to the darkest depth of my locked thoughts.”

Another young woman who became addicted to the drug during her teens told Mail+ this week that she began to take it because she Had moved to a new school in the sixth form and wanted to fit in.

At parties, what candy and students seemed to prefer the drug over alcohol; It seemed cheaper and easier than getting drunk.

“Everything felt so pressing,” says Eva. “School work, friends, my appearance, university applications – it was just easier to be out of it.

After I started taking ket, the boys at school would joke with me and then invite me to do it with them in a nearby park during lunch. I felt I had been accepted. ‘

She quickly started using it every day. “I took it before class, in the toilets, the library – many of us did, so I thought it was normal.

What I didn’t realize was when they got home to their bedrooms they stopped. ‘But Eva didn’t.

After two years on ketamine, she found that she needed to go to the toilet constantly – and then the cramps started.

“First they were with a few weeks, an unfortunate stomach pain,” she says.

“I would pretend to my parents that I had my period so the heating pads that I used for pain relief were not so obvious.”

Eva’s parents are both management consultants who live in London who sent their children to a private school.

“But I went on using the drug,” she tells me. “I thought girls I didn’t become addicted – until it was too late.”

Today, eight years from the day she started taking it, Eva aged 24, is incontinent in the bladder and carries what she refers to as “diapers”.

“No one tells you the side effect the first time they are handing you over,” she warns when she tells me about the life -changing devastation that the drug has done on her.

Dame Diana Johnson, prime minister for crime, said: “Ketamine is an extremely dangerous subject and recent increase in its use is depth.”

Her comments came after a coronary wrote to the home secretary Yvette Cooper in November and demanded measures over the drug’s classification after a man’s death.

James Boland, 38, from Manchester, died of sepsis caused by a kidney infection that was “a complication of prolonged use of ketamine”.

Mr Boland – founder and owner of Ancoat Coffee Co in Manchester – had changed from cocaine because he thought ketamine was “less harmful”.

He was a “chronic user” of the drug and also had serious urological problems as a result of it abusing it.

Coroner Alison Mutch Ore warned people in Britain is under a “false impression” that the drug – who killed Friends -star Matthew Perry – is less dangerous than other substances such as cocaine.

In November, a ruined mother asked ministers to classify ketamine as class A, after the death of her 20-year-old daughter who suffered a two-year dependence on the subject.

Sophie Russell, from Lincolnshire, died in September after using the drug daily, which had caused her irritating abdominal pain and incontinence.

Her mother Tracy Marelli said the drug “ruined her.”

And in April, midwife Clare Rogers, 47, invited ketamine to be upgraded to class A after her award-winning 26-year-old student son, Rian Rogers, was killed by the drug.