GHB (Gamma Hydroxybutyrate) - It's a depressant
(G, Georgia home boy, Grievous Bodily Harm, Liquid Ecstasy, Scoop)
Physical/Description:
Usually is produced in a clear liquid, white powder, a tablet or a capsule form. It's a colorless and odorless drug, has a slight salty taste but is most likely diluted in liquids so it is virtually undetectable. Often GHB is created with home made recipes and some kits purchased from online.
How it's used:
Powder forms and in liquid forms. Even some bodybuilders have used it to stimulate muscle growth. Also GHB is commonly found among partygoers at the club scene.
Short term effects:
Long term effects:
Interesting facts:
(G, Georgia home boy, Grievous Bodily Harm, Liquid Ecstasy, Scoop)
Physical/Description:
Usually is produced in a clear liquid, white powder, a tablet or a capsule form. It's a colorless and odorless drug, has a slight salty taste but is most likely diluted in liquids so it is virtually undetectable. Often GHB is created with home made recipes and some kits purchased from online.
How it's used:
Powder forms and in liquid forms. Even some bodybuilders have used it to stimulate muscle growth. Also GHB is commonly found among partygoers at the club scene.
Short term effects:
- Relieve anxiety
- Produce relaxation
- Nausea
- Loss of muscle control
- Difficulty breathing
- Withdrawals
- Insomnia
- Anxiety
- Tremors
- Sweating
- Loss of memory
Long term effects:
- Sleep
- Coma
- Death
- Difficulty thinking
- Hallucinations
- Slurred speech
- Headaches
- Amnesia
- Seizures
- Sedation
- Passing out
Interesting facts:
- GHB was sold in health food stores as a performance-enhancing additive in bodybuilding formulas until the Food and Drug Administration banned it in 1990.
- Drink spiking with GHB, causes the victim to become helpless to resist to remember, than the victim is then led away to somewhere private and assaulted.
- It was first synthesized in the 1920s and was under development as an anesthetic agent in the 1960s.