It is always safest not to take unknown or illicit drugs at all. However, if you do decide to use G, be informed on the risks involved and how to be as safe as possible. What is it? GHB is an odourless, oily liquid, with a slightly salty taste, usually sold in small bottles or capsules. The effects usually occur within minutes and last up to hours. GBL is a liquid with a chemical smell and taste.
It has a faster onset of action than GHB, and is often more potent — so a smaller dose is required to have the same effect. G is usually swallowed in its liquid form, often mixed with water or a soft drink. Never mix G with alcohol as these 2 substances interact and can lead to death. Less often it is snorted or inhaled. Injecting G is dangerous. What does it do? Both GHB and GBL are depressant drugs which can produce a high with small doses, and cause sedation with only slightly higher doses.
People report that G makes them feel euphoric, with a loss of inhibitions, increased confidence, and a higher sex drive. What are the risks? Avoid mixing G with alcohol. This can increase the risk of going under, and delay the time it takes for G to take effect — interfering with safe dosing intervals.
A number of deaths have been caused by G. Death can result from overdose, or severe withdrawal syndrome. My friends had moved me somewhere quiet and kept checking on me. You roll the person on to their side and let them sleep. Gamma-hydroxybutyrate — or GHB — was first synthesised for use as an anaesthetic in the s and has since been used variously as a treatment for narcolepsy and, in the s, as a fat-burner and muscle-builder.
Unlike many other party drugs, GHB can be made in the UK with the right mix of industrial chemicals, and most dealers can be found online. There are many problems with GHB, but the most pressing for recreational users is that the difference between euphoria and overdose can be a matter of a single millilitre.
The drug has been a class C controlled substance in Britain since At the club, the women are talking animatedly about social mobility issues Holli is training to be a social worker, Lauren is interning for a charity and the impact of Brexit on their respective home towns.
This seeming innocuousness, researchers argue, is what makes GHB so dangerous. This is not like any other drug, where most addicts are older and have become addicted because of years of abuse.
These young people were hooked within weeks. This is staggeringly quick. Steven, 29, stopped taking GHB a few years ago. So I switched to G. After a few months of this weekend habit, I found I was craving it more and more. And then I started to get anxious. I knew then that I had to stop. I distanced myself from those friends for a while — but I know that now, three years on, some of them do it every day. Some argue that GHB is harder to withdraw from than heroin. And withdrawal symptoms happen very quickly — a person will have entered delirium within six hours.
And they become addicted so fast because they feel so great. On a neurological level, GHB works in a similar way to depressants such as alcohol and medicines from the benzodiazepine group, such as diazepam and lorazepam. Ironically, although in the short-term it makes users feel invincible, in the longer term it leads to an increase in anxiety and depression.
Addicts are given therapy and pharmaceutical-grade GHB in decreasing doses to wean them off slowly and avoid physical withdrawal.
Even short-term, sporadic use can be dangerous. He was a year-old biochemistry student at Sheffield University: clever and extroverted, with a buzzing social life. So GHB is sometimes called the date rape drug. Some campaigns about the dangers of drink spiking reported GHB makes people unable to resist sexual advances. GHB can only be detected in urine samples for four hours after the drug has been taken. This suggests GHB could have been used when people were drugged and sexually assaulted but it would have left their system by the time they sought help.
But more recent studies in Australia , Netherlands and elsewhere show alcohol is the drug most common in drink spiking, not GHB or other sedatives. GHB is a chemical that occurs naturally in the body and helps messages travel to the brain. You can also find GHB in some meats, fruit and wine. But as a synthesised chemical, its classification in Australia changed in from a prohibited drug to a controlled drug a schedule 8 drug.
This is so doctors could prescribe it for the sleeping disorder narcolepsy under the brand name Xyrem. Doctors can only access the drug by special request to the Therapeutic Goods Administration. GHB has an interesting history. Russian chemist Alexander Zaytsev synthesised it in but there are no reports about how it was used at the time.
GHB was widely used in Europe for several decades as an anaesthetic in childbirth because it helped the cervix dilate. It was also used to help people sleep.
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