3100/2025/WEB 'Recreational ketamine use and public health'

About this course

Aim and learning outcomes

The aim of this webinar is to introduce law enforcement and judicial officers into the phenomenon of illicit ketamine markets in Europe, with a particular focus public health. By the end of this webinar, the audience will be able to:

  • Explain the response of the European Union Drug Agency (EUDA) to dynamic drug problems;
  • Explain why humans use drugs and where they use it;
  • List EUDA's multiple monitoring approaches to get an as complete as possible picture of drug problems;
  • List EUDA's known unknown populations of drug users;
  • List the characteristics of high availability of a wider range of potent drugs and their public health impact;
  • Describe the ketamine-related public health and public order issues in the Netherlands.
 
Target group

Law enforcement and judicial authorities, (forensic) experts dealing with investigation and prosecution of drug-related serious and organised crime.

Series of webinars on ketamine

This is the fourth of a series of six webinars, covering aspects of illicit ketamine markets in Europe. The full ketamine series is listed on the CEPOL training hub: Drug trafficking, where a certificate is awarded to those successfully completing all six webinar knowledge quizzes in the series.

EMPACT Drugs trafficking training resource

Audience: Operational
Activity type: Online
Event type: Webinar Series
Level: Practitioner
Enrolment: Available for self-enrolment
Resource code: 3100/2025/WEB
Delivery method: Self-paced
Certificate: Yes
Duration: Approx. 60 - 90 minutes

Dates

Start date: 11/11/25

Self enrolment (Participant)