{"id":44542,"date":"2026-03-27T14:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=44542"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:35:16","slug":"bristol-the-ketamine-capital-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2026\/03\/27\/bristol-the-ketamine-capital-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol: The &#8216;ketamine capital&#8217; of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MVI_1163_1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">European Union Drugs Agency found in their largest wastewater analysis project that Bristol records the highest consumption of ketamine across Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the freshly released report, Bristol recorded the highest amount of ketamine consumption last year, making it the \u2018K-hub\u2019 for not just the UK, but for the whole Europe. Monitoring illicit drug use in different cities across Europe, this report came out as a major concern for the public health sector of Bristol, especially because of its glamorous nightlife and deeply rooted party culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not just that it tops the list of ketamine consumption, what makes this data even uglier for Bristol is that it is very much higher then Berlin and Hasselt, which are 2nd and 3rd on the list with ketamine consumption of 252 and 151 mg (per 1000 people per day) respectively. For Bristol this number is a whopping 339 mg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Co-founder and facilitator of K-hold, a support group working with people recovering from or willing to recover from ketamine addiction said &#8220;I will always be in recovery and I will also have to maintain my recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union Drugs Agency found in their largest wastewater analysis project that Bristol records the highest consumption of ketamine across Europe. According to the freshly released report, Bristol recorded the highest amount of ketamine consumption last year, making it the \u2018K-hub\u2019 for not just the UK, but for the whole Europe. Monitoring illicit drug use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":44555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1623,1656],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","category-home-page-lead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44542"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44556,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44542\/revisions\/44556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}