{"id":740261,"date":"2026-07-03T05:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/740261\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:12:19","slug":"china-bans-pet-anaesthetic-tiletamine-after-waves-of-young-people-vape-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/740261\/","title":{"rendered":"China bans pet anaesthetic tiletamine after waves of young people vape drug"},"content":{"rendered":"

China has banned tiletamine, a common veterinary anaesthetic, after its recreational inhalation among young people escalated sharply.<\/p>\n

Since July 1, the compound has been classified as a controlled substance and is regulated as strictly as fentanyl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

However, the substance can be vaporised in so-called heady 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

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

\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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[550,144,11983,97,63250,243,318248,318250,208748,318252,4633,318251,288774,33670,318249],"class_list":["post-740261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-beijing","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\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}