Dad warns parents to watch for signs after death of his son, aged 23

A 23-year-old man ended up unable to stop wetting himself after years of taking ketamine and died days after being released from hospital. Craig Hamer, 43, said his son Ethan began taking the class B drug when he was aged just 14 but his usage ramped up following a family bereavement in 2020.

His addiction got worse after the death of his mum in 2024 and he was left taking up to seven grams of the drug every day which left him constantly urinating and 'stinking of pee' due to damage to his bladder. Father-of-one Ethan died on April 28 this year shortly after being discharged from hospital where he had been treated for kidney failure.

An inquest this month confirmed that his death was ‘drug-related’ and that Ethan had

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