In our area, students seem to be dropping like flies over ghb. All I know is that it is a liquid drug that is like a white trash crack addiction. Any history/news out there on this drug?
Well, I doubt this is the information you’re looking for, but it stands for gammahydroxybutyrate and it looks like this:
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It’s one of the common “date-rape drugs”. I remember seeing a case on CourtTV where it was involved. The scary thing is that it used to be purchased at health food stores. I don’t know if this is still true.
GHB is one of the newer fad drugs sweeping the country. Like DXM , MDMA, and others, it’s been around for a while, but has only recently been really catching on among our youths.
It’s easily synthesized with a little kitchen chemistry and some GABA bought from a health food store.
GHB was lauded in the late sixties as a wonderful catch-all for psychopharmacology. It was a nice anti-depressant, euphoriant, relaxant. No horrendous side effects. But it also produced unconscious spells (more like deep sleep than anything else).
hence the date rape angle. drop a bit into someone’s drink, and have yor way. really a tawdry and disgusting way to bury an otherwise effective drug.
btw, most of the kids dropping like flies aren’t in a dire way. But their parents or school administrators or whatever don’t (wisely) want to take any chances.
not only is it easy to take too big of a dose, but there’s a lot of bad kitchen chemistry resulting in some crappy contaminated doses.
jb
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