About Us
Built by someone who looked for help and couldn’t find it
KES is a community interest company founded by Fin Worthington
Everything it does comes from lived experience of ketamine addiction and the support system that wasn’t there
I spent the best part of nine years dealing with ketamine addiction. It started the way it starts for most people — casually, socially, without any sense of where it was heading. By the time the damage was serious, the support I needed didn’t exist.
There were helplines that didn’t understand ketamine. Services that treated it like every other drug. GPs who hadn’t seen the bladder and kidney problems before and didn’t know what they were looking at. I got through it, but had to work most of it out on my own.
KES exists so that other people don’t have to.
Where KES is
KES is still growing. The workshops and support sessions are running, the community is building, and the need is getting bigger every year.
The longer-term plan is to open a dedicated drop-in space where people can get face-to-face support without needing an appointment or a referral.
KES is also working towards securing funding to make the education workshops free for schools, so that the ability to pay is never the thing that stops young people hearing what they need to hear.
If you want to support that, booking a workshop is the most direct way to help. Every session funds the free support that makes the rest of it possible.
Why ketamine needs its own service
Ketamine doesn’t fit the model that most addiction services are built around
The physical damage is different. The pattern of use is different. The people affected are often younger and don’t see themselves as having an addiction until the consequences are already severe.
The existing system treats ketamine as a footnote. KES treats it as the specific, growing problem it is. That’s not a criticism of other services. It’s a recognition that generalist support isn’t enough when the substance has its own set of risks that most professionals haven’t been trained to deal with.
What I bring to this
I’m not a counsellor or a clinician. I’m someone who’s been through ketamine addiction and come out the other side with a clear understanding of what the recovery system gets wrong and what people going through it need.
I deliver every workshop and talk myself, run the one-to-one support sessions, and I’m in the WhatsApp group. The reason KES works is that the people it helps are talking to someone who has genuinely been where they are, not someone who’s read about it.
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Where KES is heading
KES is still growing. The workshops and support sessions are running, the community is building, and the need is getting bigger every year.
The longer-term plan is to open a dedicated drop-in space where people can get face-to-face support without needing an appointment or a referral.
KES is also working towards securing funding to make the education workshops free for schools, so that the ability to pay is never the thing that stops young people hearing what they need to hear.
If you want to support that, booking a workshop is the most direct way to help. Every session funds the free support that makes the rest of it possible.
Get in touch
Whether you want to book KES for your organisation, get support for yourself or someone you care about, or find out more about what KES does, get in touch and I’ll come back to you.
