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Hard for Russian Veterinarians to Use Anesthesia Due to Russian Drug Laws

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Ketamine has long been used for operating on animals throughout the world, but when it came in vogue as a party drug in the late 1990s, Russia's response was to ban the substance entirely in 2003. This has left vets between a rock and a hard place, with two contradictory laws condemning them whichever way they turn. "If It hurts them."

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