The mother of a 22-year-old estate agent whose ketamine addiction led to her death has called for the drug to have its classification upgraded.
Isabelle Sapherson-Moralee, known as Izzy, suffered chronic pain and was just 5st 9lb (39kg) when she died in April 2025, five years after she first started taking ketamine.
Her mother Ann Moralee said she believed young people saw ketamine as safer than other drugs because it is classified as class B.
Drug classifications determine the penalties for possessing, taking, making or dealing them, with the punishment’s severity increasing from the lowest class, C, to the highest, A.
Class C drugs
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