European study shows Dublin's ketamine use reached same level as MDMA in 2024

A garda seizure of suspected ketamine in Dublin recently. Dublin had the tenth highest levels of ketamine in municipal wastewater of all cities tested in Europe, pointing to a possible increasing use of the psychoactive dissociative anesthetic drug. File picture: An Garda Síochána

Dublin had the tenth highest levels of ketamine in municipal wastewater of all cities tested in Europe, pointing to a possible increasing use of the psychoactive dissociative anesthetic drug.

The Irish capital also had the 15th highest reading for ketamine in wastewater of the cities tested worldwide in 2024 with a daily average of 43.5mg, according to a new European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) study.