Ketamine addiction making teenagers wet the bed, says UK’s first specialist clinic

Ketamine can damage the bladder, creating an urgent need to urinate frequently and, in extreme cases, leading to the bladder needing to be removed. Photograph: baona/Getty Images

Children are using incontinence pads and urinating in buckets next to their bed at night due to bladder problems caused by ketamine addiction, according to the first specialist NHS clinic dealing with the issue.

Medics at Alder Hey children’s hospital in Liverpool have opened the first ketamine clinic for young people in the UK in response to a surge in urology problems linked to addiction of the drug.