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Latest update
Starting 2025, Take Ket? Let’s Chat began a secondary project. This project will extend and evaluate the Take Ket? Let’s Chat! resources and campaign to include UK students, relevant student union workers and university staff. The research will include participatory creative evaluation alongside an online and in-situ targeted population survey, and Crew is very excited to be part of this process!
The project has been selected to be presented at the Club Health Conference in Ghent, Belgium in May 2025.
Further developments and advancements of the project will be shared here in the coming months, so stay tuned!
Resources
If you want to download the Take Ket? Let’s Chat resources they are available here:
Take Ket? Let’s Chat Resource A5 (click to view and download)
This is a mobile-friendly harm reduction resource aimed at people attending clubs, festivals and parties.
Take Ket? Let’s Chat Resource A4 (click to view and download)
This is a harm reduction resource, aimed mostly at people who work in drug and/or youth services. It offers harm reduction information alongside headline figures from the survey.
Both are available as PDFs.
Why now?
More people are taking ketamine since the pandemic. Ketamine is also cheaper than ever after a drop in price on wholesale markets. Ketamine is now taken by a significant minority of (mainly young) people across the UK, especially at raves, festivals and parties. This is one of the reasons for the project to be extended, so please check back for updates.
Safer Partying
Between May 2023 and February 2024, Dr Karenza Moore, Newcastle University and Kira Weir (formerly of Crew), alongside other staff at Crew, asked people in the UK and across Europe about their ketamine use via an anonymous online survey.
The survey was part of a wider study called Safer Partying, funded by Newcastle University, which uses research with people who take drugs in recreational settings to help create up-to-date harm reduction resources.
To help create both the Crew ketamine resources, we used survey responses from over 300 people living in the UK, as well as participant observations at 30+ dance music events across the country between 2021 and 2023.
The Safer Partying ketamine survey and our observations at events highlighted an increasing need for improved information and support around ketamine use. It also highlighted a need for expanded drug testing/checking services, and better access to treatment services for those struggling with the drug.
To share, download, print for free or order copies of these resources, please visit our Get Our Stuff page or email us at info@crew2000.org.uk for more information.
For details about the Safer Partying project, please email Karenza.moore@newcastle.ac.uk
