A lot of GHB users would argue that GHB is the safest drug, which is interesting.
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However, doses of GHB are difficult to calibrate as it is highly potent with a steep dose-response curve, and co-using GHB with alcohol increases its effects.
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But GHB commonly results in overdoses, and as is shown by the death of Joel Taylor— who is suspected of taking GHB—sometimes use can lead to fatal outcomes.
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Beurmanjer studies addiction to GHB and relapse among former users.
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What effects does GHB have on the person taking it?
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But it seems to be a particular issue with GHB.
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GHB is also sometimes known as the date rape drug.
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I was high on a cocktail of crystal meth and GHB.
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According to Lowe, they took more GHB before taking a nap.
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Maryvonne was 20153 when she tried GHB for the first time.
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GHB was found in the bodies of Walgate, Kovari, Whitworth and Taylor.
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GHB is by no means a popular drug in the general population.
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If you're passing out from GHB, that's going to affect your memory.
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In addition to being relatively inconspicuous, GHB is also not particularly difficult to acquire; GBL, a substance that can be manufactured into GHB at home by following a few googleable steps, can be bought online by the liter.
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Who needs GHB when good old H20 comes out of taps...for free!
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Investigators also found a "cookbook" with recipes for several illicit drugs, including GHB.
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In a Facebook post from Wednesday afternoon, the Canadian club said that "GHB is killing the club scene the world over," and that, as a matter of policy, anyone caught in possession of or using GHB will be barred for life.
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According a DEA fact sheet, the average GHB dose is one to five grams and can take anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes to kick in, but dealers and users typically measure out GHB by the capful, and slipups are common.
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While GHB induces sleep, the drug causes users to feel high before falling unconscious.
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What is particularly unique about GHB is that onset of unconsciousness can occur quickly.
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It took thirty days to wean myself off GHB and then I flew home.
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The first step I took is getting rid of the meth, coke, GHB, ecstasy.
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Of all the club drugs, GHB is the one that carries the most stigma.
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There's a brand of GHB called Xyrem and it's prescribed to people with narcolepsy.
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GHB has also been used in medical trials conducted in Italy to treat alcoholism.
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How dangerous is GHB compared to other club drugs like MDMA, coke, or alcohol?
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But, I don't think anyone should take large doses of GHB no matter what.
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This will let people know if they're on GHB and how to handle them.
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Geraets-Timmersman says most overdoses she encounters, however, are either from ecstasy or GHB.
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I actually wanted to put a 'no GHB' thing on my promo last year.
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Ticket holders arrested this year were reportedly in possession of ecstasy, cannabis and GHB.
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There were others there who gave him meth and GHB until he lost consciousness.
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Police allege Port killed his victims with drinks spiked with large doses of GHB.
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I didn't know it at the time, but the water bottle had GHB in it.
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GHB use declined in response to the abundance of overdoses and increased stigma toward use.
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"I took GHB prior to going to the gym for a long workout," he writes.
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Have you ever wondered what LSD, GHB, MDMA, and DMT looked like under a microscope?
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She would receive GHB every two hours, and each time the dosage would be decreased.
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A while back, we saw a young man who took ecstasy, GHB, speed, and alcohol.
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They do not screen for other common date rape drugs, such as GHB or ketamine.
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But, of course, some take it really far, doing lots of ecstasy, MDMA, GHB, etc.
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Stereo, a long-running after-hours club in Montreal, has taken a firm stance against GHB.
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In New York City, some major venues closed, largely in response to so many GHB overdoses.
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So maybe don't buy a GHB precursor if you want to enhance Socks's—or anyone else's—mood.
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"That came as a bit of a shock, because I was so done with GHB," she recalls.
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GHB and GBL, passed down to the gay clubbing scene from the bodybuilding scene, gets people horny.
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To the public, it was a Romeo and Juliet-style tragedy, with GHB as the deadly poison.
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To boot, GHB is often carried in small vials, meaning it's easy to hide on your person.
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Lowe claimed that he and Bardwell had voluntarily taken the the date rape drug GHB as an aphrodisiac.
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As additional support, we also bring former users together with experiential experts who were once addicted to GHB.
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GHB destroys your entire dopamine system, but when I'm exercising the hunger for the drug is completely gone.
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GHB is a Schedule One drug, but it is approved here in the US for some medical uses.
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They all died from overdoses of the date-rape drug GHB, also known as G or liquid ecstasy.
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Someone who took too much GHB seems very slow and someone with an ecstasy overdose looks super alert.
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We're told there were huge quantities of party drugs on board the ship, including cocaine, Ecstasy and GHB.
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In February, more than 20 people were hospitalized during Melbourne's electric Parade Music Festival after reportedly consuming synthetic GHB.
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People who used GHB to suppress their feelings for years suddenly had to process their emotions without the drug.
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If you're used to taking GHB, you know there's always that short-term solution that'll help solve those tears.
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In London, there has been a rise in HIV infections and mephedrone and GHB/GBL overdoses linked to chemsex.
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Their products included heroin-laced fentanyl, counterfeit Xanax tablets, ketamine, LSD, the date-rape drug GHB, steroids and methamphetamine.
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While believers claim that the upper will cancel out the effects of GHB, the reality is much more dangerous.
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"NEW POLICY: We are sick of calling ambulances, so we'll be searching for GHB at the door," it read.
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So we're partnering with the UK's Channel 4 to make a documentary about what GHB is doing to this community.
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I stopped cutting my shit entirely because I noticed that the younger generation was getting hooked on meth and GHB.
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Despite the ban, GHB use increased throughout the 103s, and the drug was made illegal to possess in March 2000.
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Witnessing the problems associated with GHB use so often in nightclubs was the main reason I became a drug researcher.
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Once inside the human body, this compound metabolizes into the more familiar GHB, a drug commonly associated with date rape.
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Analysts at GHB Insights estimate that over 350 million iPhone users have phones that are two years old or older.
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Analysts at GHB Insights estimate that over 350 million iPhone users have phones that are 2 years old or older.
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But if someone gives you a "cap" of GHB, just a couple of extra drops could make a huge difference.
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GHB can knock you out cold, for maybe a good hour—or longer—and often times it's like a coma.
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More than 20 people have been hospitalized after reportedly ingesting synthetic GHB during the Electric Parade Music festival in Melbourne.
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She told PEOPLE that someone had allegedly drugged her with GHB while she was out drinking with friends for her birthday.
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He made no mention of GHB, which as we reported ... he was also under the influence of when he was arrested.
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Seoul police have since widened the crackdown on drugs (especially GHB, or "date rape" drugs) to other clubs located in Gangnam.
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GHB is a depressant that causes drowsiness and nausea; ketamine is an anesthetic that reduces feeling and can distort victims' senses.
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In 1990, at least 100 people were reportedly poisoned using GHB, and the Food & Drug Administration banned sales of the substance.
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In my observation, most users of GHB attempt to take small doses in order to experience the high without falling unconscious.
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One of the biggest dangers with GHB is dosing; take a few drops too many, and the user passes out cold.
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I don't think this is necessary for a lot of other drugs, but it might work well with regard to GHB.
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It's a catch-22 that is one of the biggest barriers to harm reduction efforts worldwide, and not just with GHB.
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But months later the autopsy and toxicology reports revealed the presence of that same perilous cocktail of ketamine, GHB and cocaine.
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First synthesized as a research chemical and anesthetic in France in the 1960s, GHB burst onto the club scene in 1980s.
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For example, MDMA was reported to increase "emotionality/intimacy" the most, while GHB/GBL was said to heighten "sexual desire" the most.
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"I voluntarily went to get professional help, and I was informed by their staff that I had been given GHB," she continued.
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The drug GHB raises your libido, but can knock you out; it accounted for two-thirds of Dutch drug-related emergencies in 2016.
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But tina and GHB, which began to arrive on the scene in the late 80s, are easy to make and more easily obtained.
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GHB, due to its high likelihood of leading to overdose, is one of the most deleterious drugs to ever reach the party scene.
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Yes, there are plenty of partiers who use GHB "safely," and harm reduction techniques should be used among those who insist on using.
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MDMA in particular was associated with increasing intimacy the most, while GHL/GHB was rated as ramping up people's sexual desires the most.
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Alcohol, cannabis, MDMA and cocaine were most commonly used, while the so-called "club drugs" GHB/GBL and ecstasy/MDMA, were rated most favorably.
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Kesha's lawsuit alleges that Dr. Luke dosed Kesha with the date rape drug GHB (claiming they were "sober pills") and raped her in 2005.
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The other was during a Jeff Mills set at a club in Copenhagen, where I overdosed on GHB and an ungodly amount of liquor.
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GBL and GHB are big libido-drivers, and crystal meth or mephedrone helps to physically sustain that libido over a long period of time.
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For example, a recent study of MSM nightclub attendees in South London found that more than half reported GHB use in the past year.
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Jennstar: At that time GHB was starting to rear its ugly head, so there were ambulance calls, paramedics that had to be on site.
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While not nearly as commonly used as most other illegal drugs, GHB appears to enjoy sporadic surges of use in specific communities and areas.
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Jamie Hakim: Men taking mephedrone, GHB, GBL, and crystal meth, and—often using apps like Grindr—organizing group parties in apartments and residencies around London.
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The coasters test for gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and ketamine, two of the most common date-rape drugs, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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Some New York City nightclubs even had their own private ambulance services in order to not alert authorities about the GHB problem in their venues.
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"I voluntarily went to get professional help, and I was informed by their staff that I had been given GHB," she said in a statement.
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As I explained to someone else who asked me about GHB last year, the more euphoric you feel, the closer you are to passing out.
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If Miles is a sheep in a wolf's sport jacket, the film is a Deleuzian hot-take, high on GHB and not wearing any panties.
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Since 1990, sixteen thousand people have overdosed on GHB and 70 have died in the US, according to data provided by the Substance Aabuse and Mental Health Services Administration, but it can be difficult to diagnose the role GHB played in person's death because the same compound is produced in human tissue, and the drug is cleared from the blood 2-6 hours after ingestion.
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According to the World Health Organization, there have been approximately 60 GHB-related deaths in the US since 1990, although the real number is likely higher.
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GHB first gained popularity in the 1990s, when it was sold over-the-counter in vitamin supplement stores as a sleep aid and growth hormone enhancer.
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Every time I log onto them, I am asked multiple times if I "parTy" or "pNp"—code words for doing meth and/or GHB while fucking.
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I think one of the most perfect explanations I've gotten upon interviewing GHB users was that it feels like a combination of ecstasy and alcohol together.
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People think methamphetamine is the most sexual drug, and in some respects it is, but GHB has almost an animalistic feeling when it comes to sex.
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Chemsex is characterized by the use of drugs such as crystal meth, mephedrone and GHB, or gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, to enhance sexual arousal, performance and pleasure.
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Chemsex is characterized by the use of drugs such as crystal meth, mephedrone and GHB, or gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, to enhance sexual arousal, performance and pleasure.
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Once there, investigators believe Mr. Sinaga was probably drugging his victims with gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, or GHB, which is sometimes used recreationally as a club drug.
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And the dark recess of a nightclub is far from an ideal place to measure out a dosage of GHB that won't make you pass out.
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I was deeply immersed in the after-hours New York City nightclub scene in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when GHB popularity was at its peak.
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Online rehab directory and information center Addiction Resource published several web pages containing step-by-step guides on how to make drugs, including GHB, crack, and meth.
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Even though GHB has sexual effects, when we're talking about date rape it's a situation where the perpetrator knocks a person unconscious and then sexually assaults them.
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MDMA and γ-hydroxybutyric acid/γ-butyrolactone (GHL)/γ-Hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), club drugs with intoxicating effects similar to alcohol, were consistently rated as the most positive drugs.
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Mischa Barton was not in her right mind after she says someone spiked her drink with GHB ... and video of the incident shows it was a dire situation.
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However, the weaponizing of GHB, which poses a serious risk of overdose when taken with alcohol, has raised concerns among LGBT health charities to advocate for cautious use.
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The police have admitted that they might have missed opportunities to catch Mr. Port sooner and have refocused attention on the use of GHB as a possible weapon.
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In most cases, those who become unconscious from a GHB overdose will eventually wake up on their own, but there's no way for medics to accurately determine that.
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Doctors told the victim her symptoms sounded similar to those associated with consuming GHB, a colorless, odorless, tasteless liquid widely known as one of the date rape drugs.
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Young black men who died from meth and GHB during sex; deaths known about by others in Davis's circle but who were too locked into the same addictions.
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In 2000, Andrew Luster, heir to a cosmetics fortune, was arrested for drugging three women with GHB — a colorless, odorless drug that can cause blackouts — and then raping them.
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A toxicologist testified at the trial that the victim's symptoms were consistent with GHB, and despite the negative test results, the suspect was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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Earlier in September he embarked on his most recent—and ambitious—experiment: taking hard drugs like LSD, speed, GHB, Ritalin, and MDMA over the course of a few days.
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My colleagues and I, for example, found that among electronic dance music attendees in New York City in 2015, nearly 1 out of 10 attendees reported ever using GHB.
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But GHB is not only popular in the nightclub scene for dancing and socializing; it is a leading "ChemSex" drug—meaning it is often used intentionally to intensify sex.
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The police were called and you were taken to a hospital where you claimed that you had been drugged while out, citing GHB as the reason for your erraticism.
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If you take too much or combine GHB with a drug like alcohol, the effects increase greatly and you're at a higher risk for more severe consequences, including death.
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And legislation passed in 2000 brought GHB under tight controls after a 15-year-old died from an overdose when the drug was dropped into her cup of Mountain Dew.
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"I voluntarily went to get professional help, and I was informed by their staff that I had been given GHB," The O.C. alum said in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE.
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In an exclusive statement to PEOPLE on Friday, Barton confirms that she has been released from the hospital — and says that someone gave her GHB while drinking on Wednesday night.
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All told, cops nabbed three guns (including one AR-15), 74 ounces of coke, 700 pills of the deadly opioid fentanyl, and 6.25 cups of the date rape drug GHB.
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The club claims that the police have been pressuring them since January 2008, when 26-year-old Adam Fazio died in his home after allegedly buying GHB at the establishment.
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A lot of people don't understand this, and it's one of the most stigmatized club drugs out there, because people think that if you use GHB you're going to overdose.
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Such hookups — where meth and other drugs such as GHB are used to intensify everything — are popularly known as party and play (PnP) in the US, and as chemsex elsewhere.
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TMZ broke the story ... "Storm Chaser" star Joel Taylor had been doing GHB late Monday night going into Tuesday morning, dancing during a wild party, when he lapsed into unconsciousness.
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It's that last group in which the drug's use is most visible, in the chemsex scene, where drone and GHB have emerged as the two most favored types of party fuel.
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The lab also conducts further tests: one that targets 5503 specific drugs, another for traces of benzodiazepines, and a specific test for GHB if the sample is collected within 12 hours.
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At the time, her death was ruled accidental, with the cause being overdose from a cocktail of substances ... including booze, coke and a commonly used date rape drug known as GHB.
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Gutman said the problem with GHB is that it's unpredictable and in terms of dosage, there's a fine line between the high that you want to get and a toxic level.
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The drug has risen as a deadly threat in the country's "chemsex" scene, where gay and bisexual men experiment with doses of crystal meth, GHB, and mephedrone to heighten sexual arousal.
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There, people overcame their addictions within two or three weeks by using GHB in prescribed doses in a controlled environment, directly assisted by doctors to wean them off the drug itself.
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You should never combine GHB with alcohol, because it has what we call a "synergistic effect," which effectively means the sum of the two highs is greater than each individual high.
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Then, two months before he died, Jackson overdosed on a combination of GHB, a depressant; ketamine, an anesthetic; and cocaine, and was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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On October 29, 2016, the couple met a woman at a Halloween party through a mutual acquaintance and put GHB in her drink while she was at their home, prosecutors say.
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It will not screen for grapefruit juice, milk products, products such as Kahlúa or Bailey's Irish cream, it won't do a margarita, and it won't [test for GHB] in basic tap water.
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"We've had clients who've been traumatized because they've gone over to party and someone slips GHB in their drink, and they don't remember what happens over the following few hours," he said.
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Stigma toward users was a leading method of reducing prevalence in the early 2000s, and anti-GHB campaigns in the nightclub scene have already begun in Canada in response to recent overdoses.
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There's a rape scene in which Charlie is drugged with GHB, forced to have sex with a porn star, and then secretly videotaped in footage that goes out to the entire school.
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While a total of 59 GHB users turned to addiction treatment centers in 2007, the total count in 2012 was 761 people (today the number still hovers around 800 in the Netherlands).
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His death prompted Operation White Rabbit—an undercover sting by police on March 16, 2008, that obtained $35,000 in cash and roughly $30,000 in illegal drugs like cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, and GHB.
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"It was too much becoming about the ketamine, the crystal meth, the GHB," he admits, regarding the crash of the New York scene in the late-90s when he first became a star.
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READ MORE: 'Chemsex,' drugs and death -- The lawyer who lost his lover In January last year, Hendron says he gave Jimenez GHB (commonly known as "G") and mephedrone (also known as "meow-meow").
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According to the series, van der Sloot — one of the last people seen with Natalee — was with her when she choked on her own vomit after allegedly ingesting GHB, a date-rape drug.
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TMZ broke the story ... law enforcement sources tell us they believe Taylor's death was an OD. Passengers told us Taylor consumed enough GHB Monday night to lapse into unconsciousness on the dance floor.
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And when we get the big reveal at the end of the episode that Logan was selling GHB the night Veronica was drugged and raped, it feels like it's nailing the coffin shut.
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While GHB may have a comparatively low fatality rate, it is very easy to experience an overdose requiring a hospital visit if users aren't extremely careful about dosage and mixing with other substances.
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That's when police said they found the narcotics -- there were approximately 75 grams of methamphetamine, 1.36 kilograms of GHB, 1 gram of cocaine, 3.6 grams of fentanyl, 15 MDMA tablets and drug paraphernalia.
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Palamar's research focuses on the behavioral aspects of GHB, particularly within the gay community, and here he explains the particular risks of the drug and why people need to be aware of its effects.
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You should make sure you feel okay before taking it; you shouldn't be up for two days and then take a cap of GHB, because you might pass out like a ton of bricks.
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It described a narrative in which Kovari and Whitworth had become involved in London's underground chemsex scene–sex parties facilitated by dating apps such as Grindr and drugs including GHB, crystal meth, and mephedrone.
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After recently penning a powerful essay for THUMP about the queer community's meth and GHB epidemic, Chicago artist Anthony "aCe" Pabey's group Banjee Report has released an explosive new single engaging with the same themes.
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To test with the coasters, users take a drop of their drink and rub it on two small circles (one tests for GHB, another for ketamine) and wait to see if the circles' colors change.
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You'll have a stranger pour a bit of GHB in typically a woman's drink in a bar or at a club, and hope that she becomes so inebriated that she could be taken advantage of.
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The parties were drug-fueled and, as we reported, Taylor was so out of it he fell into unconsciousness on the dance floor and had to be carried to his room after allegedly consuming GHB.
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Investigators from the Manhattan district attorney's office posed as buyers on the dark web and purchased over 10,000 tablets of counterfeit Xanax from Sinmed, along with significant quantities of GHB and ketamine, Mr. Vance said.
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Several agreed that they were seeing more issues in recent years with GHB (gamma hydroxbutyrate), most were unwilling to talk on the record, citing fears that it would lead to unwanted attention from the authorities.
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However, not every type of drug that can be labeled as date rape drugs were tested which include Rohypnol, Ketamine and GHB, according to the Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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At the same time, it was also gaining traction amid the gay clubbing scene in London, where CK1, a term for consuming a mix of both ketamine and cocaine, was being used alongside GHB and ecstasy.
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After moving to London, he tried drugs like GHB, ketamine, and crystal meth for the first time, and his eventual addiction to meth became so bad he was asked to leave his job in February 2015.
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Until this study, there hadn't been much large-scale research into spiked drinks, though some scientists in Singapore have developed a fluorescent sensor that reveals the presence of the date-rape drug GHB in spiked drinks.
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And while the drugs most often labeled as date rape drugs are Rohypnol, GHB, and ketamine, festival-goers' drug of choice—or at least the one they talk about most on Instagram (other than alcohol)—is MDMA.
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After that, the parents allege that Kimberly texted the promoter from inside the house saying, "you friend just poor'd half G in my drink," and the parents believe G refers to GHB, which is a powerful depressant.
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Gabriel said the man revealed to him that Van der Sloot — who is serving time in Peru on an unrelated murder — gave Natalee the date-rape drug GHB, and that she later choked on her own vomit.
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More inventive techniques included NOS canisters tied up into belt form with masking tape to keep the noise from giving the game away, and GHB poured into a hair-lotion bottle and placed in a toiletry bag.
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Cocaine, MDMA, speed, weed—they're as popular as they ever have been, with stuff like GHB and (for the weak) Nos balloons thrown in, all topped off with the smooth after-taste of a blue-colored Valium.
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Once a drink leaves your line of sight, it's a prime opportunity for someone to slip in dangerous and unwanted additive like methanol or even other drugs like rohypnol or GHB that can cause you to black out.
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Gabriel claimed the man told him that van der Sloot — who is serving time in Peru on an unrelated murder — allegedly gave Natalee the date-rape drug GHB, and that she later choked to death on her own vomit.
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GHB, or gamma-hydroxybutyrate, has been referred to as a "date rape drug" by the media for decades, as it has been involved in instances of sexual predators spiking unsuspecting womens' drinks to take advantage of them while unconscious.
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Last month, Pabey joined us for a roundtable discussion on the state of gay nightlife in the US, where he first shared his growing concerns over the widespread use of drugs like crystal meth and GHB in queer communities.
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A day later, Barton, 31, revealed in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE that she was was released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center — and said that someone drugged her with GHB while she drinking with friends the night of her birthday celebration.
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"On a chemical level, these three drugs (GHB, mephodrone, crystal meth) have this sexually arousing property that cocaine and ecstasy didn't have," explained Dr Adam Bourne, a lecturer and researcher in chemsex at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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While much of the media refers to GHB as a "date-rape" drug, within the UK's LGBT community it's known as one of the three key drugs used in chemsex, the drug-fueled sex scene particularly popular among gay men.
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In the story shared with Dave and Ward by the informant — a man named Gabriel who assisted with their investigation — Van der Sloot allegedly gave Natalee GHB, a date-rape drug, and she later choked to death on her own vomit.
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The boombox really catches my eye—the colors are fantastic and it looks different from most pins without looking like one of those terrible psychedelic 'dabs pins' you would buy at a Grateful Dead concert before the GHB really kicks in.
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Research on GHB use in America is slim, but a recent VICE article described the substance (along with meth and mephedrone) as part of the "lifeblood" of chemsex parties—drug-fueled group sex sessions often organized on gay dating apps.
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Infamous Toronto after-hours club the Comfort Zone filed a lawsuit against the police for ongoing harassment of their patrons and repeated police raids, following the 2008 GHB-related death of Adam Fazio, who'd attended the club before his overdose.
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Sinaga, who has lived in the United Kingdom since 2007, targeted young men who looked drunk or vulnerable and rendered them unconscious with a sedative, probably the party drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid that is known as GHB, the court was told.
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The theory advanced by the series, as related by the informant and the alleged accomplice, is that during a late-night on the beach with Van der Sloot, Holloway choked on her own vomit and died after ingesting GHB, a date-rape drug.
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The suicide note stated that Kovari and Whitworth had known each other, and that, at a sex party, Whitworth had accidentally given Kovari an overdose of GHB, a drug notorious for having a very steep dosing curve, making overdose a real hazard.
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Addiction rates are higher among queer people for numerous probable reasons, including increased likelihood of mental health issues and abandonment, but one that's often singled out is chemsex—the practice of using certain drugs (usually GHB, mephedrone or crystal meth) to enhance sexual pleasure.
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That doesn't seem likely -- Taylor's death appears to be tied to a drug OD. As we reported ... Taylor was so out of it after consuming what we're told was GHB that he was rendered unconscious on the dance floor and had to be carried to his room.
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When legendary Montreal after-hours club Stereo went public with their new no-tolerance policy on GHB use this month, owner Tommy Piscardeli hoped that it would inspire a larger conversation about the problems the drug poses to dance music venue owners and event organizers worldwide.
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I've helped carry unconscious bodies from dance floors, I've had good friends of mine die after using GHB, and I had even witnessed some of the infamous hidden rooms in some nightclubs that held bodies of unconscious users where nightclub staff waited for them to gain consciousness hours later.
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A new notice of intent from the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) advises that kratom undergo emergency drug scheduling—a process that would classify two of the plant's constituent chemicals to schedule 1, in the company of heroin and GHB, where it would remain for at least two years.
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While Stereo's new policy of barring patrons from the club forever if they're caught with GHB may not end up having the impact they're hoping for, other Canadian club owners and promoters aren't exactly stepping up to the plate when it comes to joining the conversation around harm reduction.
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Port, who was found not guilty of three counts of rape, has denied all charges against him but was convicted of the murders of Anthony Walgate, 23, Gabriel Kovari, 22, Daniel Whitworth, 21, and Jack Taylor, 25 – all of whom fatally overdosed on the date-rape drug GHB and other substances.
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A startup called Mavely has raised $1 million to help DTC brands get new customers at half the price of Facebook and Instagram — and Allbirds, Brooklinen, and M.Gemi are already on board'Unconscionable': Why an online directory of rehab facilities doubled as a recipe book for drugs like GHB, crack, and meth
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Because the drugs most commonly used at these events—usually cocaine and MDMA, but also GHB, K, and others—are illegal, it can seem like the only legal response organizers can make is to preach zero tolerance, providing amnesty boxes, conducting exhaustive searches, and charging those found in contravention of the law.
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Between June 2011 and October 2015, Port lured his victims using online dating sites, such as Grindr, to invite them to his Barking, east London home where he injected them with drugs or spiked their beverages with fatal amounts of "poppers," Viagra, sleeping pills, crystal meth and/or GHB, the police say.
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While a date rape drug is commonly defined as "a drug (such as GHB or ketamine) placed secretly usually in the drink or food of a potential victim to induce a state (such as confusion, physical weakness, or unconsciousness) that makes the victim vulnerable to sexual assault and especially rape," music festival attendees often take drugs voluntarily.
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On a recent afternoon at Nick Nolte's sprawling Malibu compound, the bushy-bearded 76-year-old actor takes a long slug from a coffee mug, stuffed with four bags of green tea, and talks about the day he was arrested for driving under the influence of GHB — and the infamous photograph taken of him hours later.
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