September 2013
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Ketamine use has spread in Spain in recent years. In order to inform harm reduction projects, an online research was carried out. Among other variables, sources of information, topics of interest for ketamine users, harms experienced, risk behaviours and harm reduction behaviours were researched in a sample of 392 ketamine users. Ketamine users tended to consider themselves as moderately or well informed about ketamine, and their main sources of information were friends and websites. Health professionals and drug professionals were not relevant sources of information for ketamine users. They engaged in several risk behaviours and the use of harm reduction behaviours has to be improved in order to minimize harms. These issues must be a priority for harm reduction organizations who work with ketamine users.