{"id":776677,"date":"2026-07-03T01:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T01:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776677\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T01:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T01:42:12","slug":"china-bans-pet-anaesthetic-tiletamine-after-waves-of-young-people-vape-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776677\/","title":{"rendered":"China bans pet anaesthetic tiletamine after waves of young people vape drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China has banned tiletamine, a common veterinary anaesthetic, after its recreational inhalation among young people escalated sharply.<\/p>\n<p>Since July 1, the compound has been classified as a controlled substance and is regulated as strictly as <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/fentanyl-and-other-opioids?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fentanyl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tiletamine has a chemical structure similar to ketamine, commonly known as \u201cK powder\u201d, and it was mainly used for surgical anaesthesia in pets such as cats and dogs.<\/p>\n<p>However, the substance can be vaporised in so-called heady <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/smoking?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">e-cigarettes<\/a> to induce dissociative highs, exploiting a prior regulatory vacuum. After inhalation, users can experience visual and auditory hallucinations and dissociation of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Since it had not previously been included on the drug list, it quickly became popular in China, especially in entertainment venues such as billiard halls, discos, nightclubs and bars.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cFrom November 2025 to early January 2026, in the city of Shenyang alone, 1,605 individuals were investigated and educated for the abuse of tiletamine,\u201d a paper published in the fifth issue of the 2026 Policing Studies in Chinese said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has banned tiletamine, a common veterinary anaesthetic, after its recreational inhalation among young people escalated sharply. Since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8580,49,48,95,44006,84,121956,377,275343,275345,184743,275347,6549,275346,125519,22429,275344],"class_list":["post-776677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-beijing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-fentanyl","tag-health","tag-ketamine","tag-medication","tag-ministry-of-public-security","tag-national-narcotics-control-commission-office","tag-northeast-china","tag-shan-yehua","tag-shanghai","tag-shanghai-municipal-peoples-procuratorate","tag-shenyang","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-tiletamine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}