Ketamine Drug Testing

Ketamine is an anesthetic used by medical practitioners to treat humans, and by veterinarians to treat animals. It can also be used to control pain that has not responded to standard treatment.

As an anesthetic, it acts on chemicals in the brain and alters a person’s perception of time and space, causing hallucinations, and a feeling of detachment from reality.

This feeling can last for up to a few hours and prevents the user from feeling pain, which can put people at risk of hurting themselves without realizing it.

Learn more: Ketamine facts

When used as an anesthetic, ketamine comes in the form of a clear liquid.

However, when sold illegally, it is usually a white or off-white powder. It can also be made into pills or dissolved in a liquid, but this is less common.

Even after the ‘high’ has worn off, and long after the drug was first consumed, ketamine use can be detected by a drug test, depending on the type of test you take.

The drug testing detection windows for ketamine are as follows:

• Urine– up to 4 days
• Hair – up to 12 months (depending on the length of hair available)
• Nails– up to 12 months (up to 6 months for fingernails and up to 12 months for toenails)

The type of drug test you need depends on your individual needs and circumstances. We offer three types of drug test to detect ketamine use:

• Home Urine Drug Test
• Home Hair Drug Test
• Home Drug & Alcohol Nail Test

Urine drug tests provide a narrow window of detection, meaning that they can only tell us whether an individual has been using drugs in the few days prior to the samples being collected.

A urine drug test provides a window of detection up to four days after ketamine was first used.

This makes urine drug tests ideal for circumstances where an individual is suspected to be under the influence of drugs in the ‘here and now’, or for day-to-day monitoring of drug use.

Hair drug tests and nail drug tests provide us with a wide window of detection (up to 12 months). This is due to the way in which drugs are retained in the hair and nails, long after substances were first consumed.

Peace of mind, home hair drug tests can provide an overview of drug use up to 12 months. Nail drug tests are ideal where hair testing is not possible, providing an overview of historic drug use up to six months (fingernails) or up to 12 months (toenails).

Our home drug tests allow you to collect your samples in the comfort of your own home and return them to our laboratory for testing (where appropriate). Please be aware that the results of these tests cannot be used for legal purposes.

Order your drug test online now, call our Customer Services team on 727-325-2902 or email info@alphabiolabsusa.com.