Drug use pushing UK medical centers toward breaking point

Since 2015, the number of Britons and Welsh who admitted to using ketamine in the past month increased 252 percent, the Guardian reported Tuesday, the largest increase in the usage of any drug during that time, and a burden on hospitals. Ketamine, created to relieve pain and sedate, is increasingly being used recreationally. Alison Downey, a consultant urologist in South Yorkshire, said, “We’re already stretched really thin as it is, and it’s been a massive increase that we’re just not equipped for.” The rise of recreational drug use will have devastating consequences.