This drug-related article is intended solely for informational purposes as pertaining to Criminal Minds.
It is in no way intended to endorse, advertise, or otherwise glorify the use of these drugs for any reason.
Drugs are bad, m'kay?
Ketamine is a drug used in human and veterinary medicine developed by Parke-Davis (today a part of Pfizer) in 1962. Its hydrochloride salt is sold as Ketanest, Ketaset, and Ketalar.
Pharmacologically, ketamine is classified as an NMDA receptor antagonist. At high, fully anesthetic level doses, ketamine has also been found to bind to opioid μ receptors and sigma receptors. Like other drugs of this class such as tiletamine and phencyclidine (PCP), it induces a state referred to as "dissociative anesthesia" and is used as a recreational drug.
On Criminal Minds[]
Sheriff Georgia Davis' point of view after being drugged with Ketamine.
Criminal[]
The following criminals used Ketamine in their crimes.
- Season Two
- Frank Breitkopf ("No Way Out" and "No Way Out II: The Evilution of Frank") - A prolific serial killer, abductor, one-time stalker, and one-time mass abductor who drugged his victims with Ketamine so they would be alive and unable to move while he vivisected them.
- Season Eight
- Adam Rain ("The Lesson") - A "collector"-type serial killer and abductor who used Ketamine to incapacitate his victims so he could make them into 'marionettes'.
- Bryan Hughes ("Magnum Opus") - An abductor and serial-turned-spree killer who drugged his victims with Ketamine and Edetic Acid.
- Donnie Bidwell ("Carbon Copy") - A "wound collector"-type serial killer, copycat, stalker, and abductor who copied Hughes' M.O..
- Season Thirteen
- Kevon Winters ("Miasma") - A "house cleaner"-type serial killer, one-time abductor, angel of death and poisoner-turned-arsonist who killed most of his victims by overdosing them on ketamine.