{"id":6838,"date":"2016-01-07T02:50:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T19:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6838"},"modified":"2019-03-20T15:01:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T21:01:30","slug":"who-opposes-global-control-of-ketamine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/who-opposes-global-control-of-ketamine\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Opposes Global Control of Ketamine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has opposed a Chinese United Nations (U.N.) delegation request of the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs to place a commonly used anesthetic and analgesic, ketamine, under international control. The Chinese delegation made its request\u2014which would restrict veterinarians\u2019 ability to access it\u2014in March 2015 on grounds that ketamine poses a public health risk when abused by people in recreational and other situations. Veterinarians worldwide, however, rely on ketamine to treat animals in their care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the majority of equine anesthesia is conducted in the field, ketamine is the ideal drug for intravenous anesthesia because of its high reliability and unique pharmacokinetic properties,\u201d Carlson said.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/36954\/who-opposes-global-control-of-ketamine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with the possibility of losing ketamine access, U.S. veterinary professional organizations advised their memberships to submit comments about the Chinese request to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Ketamine is probably the most widely used veterinary anesthetic in the world, primarily because of its safety, says Ren\u00e9 Carlson, DVM, president of the World Veterinary Association and 2015 president of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,27,14,40,31,20],"tags":[126,151,214],"class_list":["post-6838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equinews","category-government","category-industry","category-thehorse","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching","tag-avma","tag-fda","tag-the-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8235,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838\/revisions\/8235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}