**Caution: Some comments may be disturbing to read, but we feel that to sugar-coat these comments would undermine the purpose of this site.

For 18 months me and a few friends started out buying invigorate from
a health food store. Later we found we could purchase it ourselves
through the web. We found Verve, which was noted to be 5 times
stronger. All this time we have been under the impression it was safe.
It was only recently a friend brought this web site to my attention after
he began to realize Verve was his problem. He was doing 5+ oz. a day.
When he began to taper off he went through most of everything you
read in this site. I was only taking 1-1 1/2 oz. at night to go to sleep
and it has taken me two weeks to taper off and the first three days I
thought I was going to go crazy. I can't begin to say how thankful I am
that I didn't get in so deep as many I have read about. This web site
is a life saver. I have sent it to all my friends. Even those that have
not done this stuff. Maybe they know someone who has and one more
person can be spared. I have sent a donation as well and suggest you
make an investment to. Thanks Trinka for your time and help to help
others.
Ron
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Name: Anonymous
City, State: Novato, California
Date: August 29, 2000
Comments:

As a Paramedic in California, I had my first encounter with a person having a reaction to ingestion of GHB. The patient had periods of severe restlessness, combativeness, and became apneic at one point. Thanks for the great information about this chemical. Keep up the good work.
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Name: Anonymous
City, State: Long Beach, CA
Date: August 28, 2000
Comments:

My friend and I went to a party in Oceanside.. he had a bottle of SOMA SOLUTION.. which is GHB just under one of it dumb -- labels. He gets it or should I say got it from a friend who orders it over the internet. We went to a party and I took 2 caps at first my friend took 6 as the night went on I took roughly five cap full we were all having a blast until I really started to feel faded. I remember running out side and puking a little bit..and coming back in the house....from there on its blank. (according to all that was there) Apparently they put me to bed and I started to throw up everywhere...no one could wake me up. or my friend Chris we were throwing up simultaneously luckily my friend Kyle was able to control us until the ambulance came (the whole time we were unconscious) picked us up and took us to the hospital on the way there I went into respiratory failure. they revived my breathing and I went right back into the hole no breath. finally we got to the hospital they controlled my breathing and put me on the respirator. this all took place around 3:30 in the morning, they pumped my stomach and kept me breathing until I woke up around 9:30> When I woke up I though I was still at my friends house and I didn't know what was in my mouth (air tube) I kind of freaked they ad me strapped in because I was having seizures, and kept trying to pull my tubes and iv's out. finally when I came to I was able to breath on my own...I found out my friend had already gone home he wasn't as bad as me. The hospital wanted me to stay there for 3 days , they didn't understand why my heart rate was too high.. finally it went down and I went home...right now I am on my way back to the hospital to get checked out for pneumonia...This has been a very emotional time for me I haven't cried this much since my father passed away. I'm only 19 years old and look at me I almost died.
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Name: H.H.
City, State: Scottsdale, AZ
Date: August 28, 2000
Comments:

I just lost my best friend of 13 years to a GHB overdose on august 20, 2000. he was only 30 years old. I knew little about the drug and I have found your site extremely helpful. I hope others find your site before they suffer the fate of my friend. thank you.
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From: Kiesel2411@aol.com
Sent: August 27, 2000 11:09 PM
Subject: (no subject)

To all g freaks, that are worried what it will be like when you are away from
it! you will be set free the withdrawals are horrible in a way in another way
there not that horrible you'll be glad when it is over, Start locating a
hospital (don't do it at home and try to use pain killers you will die) if
you are going to do it at home your crazy, make addiction out of in the next
few days figuring out a hospital, if you do not have insurance go to the
emergency room tell them you have been taking g and a lot of alcohol they
will admit you! liberium will get you through it, it is scary I know. feel free to e-mail me believe me my life went from really good to crazy fast now I am slowly coming back!
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Name: Anonymous
City, State: B.C., Canada
Date: August 27, 2000
Comments:

My experience with GHB was a very frightening one. My best friend and I were given GHB in a vodka cooler by two 'friends'. Ten minutes after taking the drink, we were both unconscious. An hour later, our mothers were called by our 'friends', who left after they made the phone call. Our mothers came to the beach where we were, and found us lying face down in the sand. They thought that we were dead, and we almost were. The paramedics were called, and after some time they revived me, but could not revive my friend. Were taken to the hospital where my best friend was put into the icu of the hospital. I was released early the next morning. Later blood tests revealed that we had both suffered a GHB overdose, and that they had not raped me, but had raped my friend. Our case is still under investigation, and my friend and I are doing much better after a lot of counseling. I would just like to warn every girl out there to be on your guard with guys that you don't very well, and never take a drink from someone you don't know. GHB is a very dangerous drug, and I hope that people will start to realize that soon, because I and many others could be dead right now because of it.
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Name: Anonymous
City, State: North Carolina
Date: August 27, 2000
Comments:

A week ago today I woke to the sound of my fiancé convulsing in bed.
At first I thought he was having a bad nightmare, because of the way he was thrashing. Then I thought he was vomiting in his pillow. I tried to wake him but couldn't. His face was mashed into the bed, and when I lifted his head, his eyes were bulging and his face was contorted. He was making a terrible sound, like he was trying to vomit but couldn't. His body was rigid. And his pulse was racing. At one point, his pulse STOPPED.

I called 911. It took four paramedics to put him in a stretcher and then hold him down when he started convulsing again. He vomited blood on my carpet and smeared the wall with it, too.

Luckily, the night before after we came home from dancing, he had told me that one of his friends had given him a drug called GHB. It was a clear liquid, he said, and the only affect was that it made you feel drunk without a hangover. He had also had two Long Island iced teas and a glass of wine. 

At the time, I asked him what was in it, and he said, ''I don't know, but it tasted like paint thinner.''

The paramedics told me GHB is made with rat poison.

For a few hours at the hospital, we didn't know whether he would live, whether he'd be a vegetable for the rest of his life, whether he would be in a coma, etc.
He woke up, but only after a violent outburst in which they had to strap him to the bed -- and he hit his head and has six stitches.

He is fine today, but both of us are extremely shaken by this. We also could have lost everything. We had to self-pay the bill so that he would not lose his career. The bill is several thousand dollars.

In the past week, I have seen a drug counselor three times and have also taken my fiancé. I have never been exposed to drugs -- if I ever went to parties, I always left at midnight so that I wouldn't be present if people pulled out drugs. Now the problem is in my HOME.

If you love someone, don't put them through this. Jesus Christ is the only high you need.
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Name: Mr. Lucky

This was not a DEATH experience, but close to it and I'm sure you'll want
to hear about it. This is a TRUE story however. I have the $7000.00
hospital/doctor bills to prove it. I took G steadily for about a year. I
struggled with tremors when trying to quit and had a rotten time with
overdoses. Eventually, I got to the point where I could no longer sleep. The
G did something to my nervous system that did not allow me to sleep. Period.
I was REALLY afraid. Afraid that I may die or lose my mind, I began to get
green leakage from my nose when I would take it so I thought I must have to
cut down. Cutting down didn't help the problem because it just became harder
to sleep. I am a recovering alcoholic so G was a "great" alternative. Little
did I know what lied ahead of me. After about a week of NO sleep, I was
really in a state of panic. My spine throbbed from my nervous system being
in frenzy, I had tried even drinking alcohol to sleep. Didn't work. I tried
chamomile, melatonin, sleeping pills, and nighttime cough medicine. Nothing
worked. Suffice it to say, in my horror, I had to go to the emergency room.
I went to the emergency room because I knew that I would start having severe
tremors from withdrawal and I didn't want to die. I also knew that I could no
longer use GHB, AT ALL. In the ER, I was treated like a common hood rat. All
they paid attention to was the "withdrawal" part of my visit. I was not taken
seriously. I was sent home that evening with a couple tablets of Adovan (a
sleep aid), with the expectation from the ER doctors and nurses that I would
be just fine. Well, I was admitted to the hospital around midnight the next
evening for tremors, SEVERE hallucinations (I seriously saw things that you
wouldn't believe if I told you), irregular heartbeat, etc. I was in a BAD
way. Oh, by the way, did I mention the fact that NOBODY in this whole
hospital had ever heard of GHB? Well, that definitely put an interesting
spin on things. I was Mr. Lucky, the guinea pig. Since I was not admitted
for overdose, but rather for withdrawal, there was NO literature or
information readily available for the emergency team. The doctors were
stumped. Everyone knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt that I needed sleep. By
this time, I don't remember anything. This information was all told to me by
my doctors and loved ones. I kept tearing the IVs from my veins, tried to
escape, hallucinated that my girlfriend had been shot and that Gnomes were
trying to kill my Mom & Dad (it's not funny, I am being dead serious).
Everyone thought I was going to die. My Grandparents were phoned and told
that I might not make it (not good considering they are in the their 80's
and my Grandpa was ill to boot. I was kept on a drug for the first FOUR [darn]
days of my hospital visit that actually aided in the malfunction of my
nervous system that made the hallucinations both worse and clearer. I was
finally given a drug, nearly 2 weeks with no sleep at all, and after I had
been in the hospital a week. That drug was called haldol. Haldol is an
anti-psychotic used in psyche wards and mental institutions to help the
"insane" sleep and not hallucinate. That drug, and the nurse that just
happened onto my floor that day, saved my life. You see, she worked in the
psyche ward upstairs and was just "stopping through". Everyone was so
dumbfounded that they would talk about my problem with all other personnel.
That wonderful person suggested haldol. I slept. Alot. I was finally
released 3 days later. If you have been counting the days in the hospital,
you got it, a week and a half. It took me another few days out of the
hospital to get back to my normal self. I don't actually remember much about
those first few days out of there. It is a jumble. But now, thank God, I am
back to normal. I sleep right, I eat right, no tremors, no gnomes, just
reality. I wrote you this for 2 reasons. 1st, if anyone else gets in this
situation, you know what drug will work and what won't. DON'T USE ADOVAN!
Use haldol. Second, I want all those people out there that are told that GHB
is "healthy", or read the internet sites that say it is "good for you" or is
an "antidepressant", that is a bunch of trash. I am a regular person. I make
a great living, I drive a nice car, I own a nice home, and I got addicted to
GHB. I don't want anyone else EVER to have to go through my loved ones and I
went through. What was worse, was that nobody knew I had a problem until I
was in the hospital! This is real !@#$ guys, when I used to read these pages
on the Internet I would say to myself "yeah, this is a bunch of propaganda".
Now who's the schmuck? I am sure that there are plenty of people out there
who haven’t gone through and won’t go through what I did. But remember, how
do you really know if you may be the next Mr. Lucky? Thanks

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Name: Anonymous
City, State: WBL, MN
Date: August 25, 2000
Comments:

I am a cocktail waitress at a club. I arrived at work at 9pm on 8/19/00. I have worked with this bartender once before and thought he was pretty nice. I had one drink at about 10pm. He had given me another one but I didn't drink much of it, maybe 2 sips. Then at midnight he asked if I wanted a shot, and said yes. He was pushy and wanted me to drink it. I didn't think anything of it, guess I thought I could trust the people I work with. It was about 4oz of alcohol and tasted like alcohol. At 12:30pm I could really feel the effects. I felt like I had 3 drinks. I asked what it was that he gave me. He just chuckled and said it was "good stuff". I continued waiting on my customers. By now I felt really sick, my throat and tongue felt very numb and I felt very groggy, hot, and stumbling. The last thing I remember I was standing at the bar and the club was full of people. The next thing was I woke up and the club was empty. I could barely speak, think, and walk. I knew something was terribly wrong and started crying. I knew better than to get in my car and drive. I told two people that worked there the bartender had to of put something in my drink and his friends were all over me. They brought me home and I passed out for 4 hours. I was all by myself and thank god I didn't stop breathing then, because I wouldn't be here now. I woke up still feeling this drug, though not as intense but enough. To the point that I was having a hard time breathing and chest pains. Also, nearly passing out many times. I was taken to the hospital and they were very concerned. There is nothing they can do to dilute this drug, but only correct the problems as they occur. I never at being a 22yr old female that I would be hooked up to a heart monitor and an ekg done. I came out alright, thank god. This is not something I chose, this person obviously had something in mind. And even more pathetic that this was done by someone whom I was working with. Don't trust anyone and always be alert.

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Name: K.W.
City, State: Hastings, Pa
Date: August 23, 2000
Comments:

this is a seriously dangerous 'drug' that affects more people than we possibly know. I give my condolences to Samantha's friends and relatives. And hope that this story along with others are addressed. thank you for sharing this tragic story. I will keep this information in my memory.

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Name: Kim
Email: n/a
City, State: Ski Town, CO
Date: August 22, 2000
Comments:

I just pulled up this page today because of a loss I suffered last year that I am only now able to put the pieces together on.

My brother died from consumption of gamma-butyrolactone last year. It appears that he bled to death, and then, after reading these articles, I am gathering that he may have stopped breathing. I do not really know what exactly happened because he was alone when it occurred.

He took this drug as a form of anti-depressant and to help with his extreme anxiety. He was suffering and medical doctors were too expensive and unable to help him as much as he needed.

I am shocked that there is a substance on the open market for people to buy, who, in some cases, are just trying to help themselves and have no idea what the results are.

My brother was a certified genius and therefore probably thought he could figure out the correct amount to take. Clearly he could not.

I would like to learn anything I can about this and warn others. I live in a community where ecstasy is prevalent and not considered an immediate or real threat. I had no idea that the two were even connected- If I had, I could have warned him and done the research myself. I also had no idea, after reading the stories below, how prevalent this really is.

This site has helped enormously as I work through what must have happened. I will continue to read what I can and let others know about this very common drug.

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Name: Anonymous
City, State: NY,NY
Date: August 21, 2000
Comments:

I have to add one more bright young person to your list of deaths from GHB. He died on Sunday morning August 21, 2000 in Washington DC. He was a friend and a lover. He loved life but was so painfully shy that he resorted to GHB to make him feel sociable, more than any of us knew. Still, I was one of the people who thought it was a manageable drug if taken cautiously which is the widespread perception among the people I know in NYC. This guy shatters all the stereotypes that this happens to novices. He was a smart level headed 30 year old lawyer who had been doing this for over a year without incident, he did not drink alcohol, he did not do any other drugs, and still died from an overdose.

Now I am determined to let everyone in earshot know that one life taken is too many. I thank you for your action thus far taken.

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Name: Anonymous
City, State: Cypress
Date: August 19, 2000
Comments:

Your web site is very informative. There is a new product called Serenity II
Is this product safe? I am 31 going on 50. Since starting my "career" 3 years ago, I have slowly lost energy, ability to sleep well, mental strength. I am looking for something to get myself back to feeling 31.

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Name: Anonymous
City, State: Flint, Michigan
Date: August 19, 2000
Comments:

My friend bought the ingredients off the internet for GHB. My friends and I trusted him and took it with him. Some wanted it and others just took it because he had it and we(they) have tried it before. I had to call 911 to revive my friend that bought the GHB and he was in a coma for close to 24 hours. Everyone that took the GHB got extremely sick. I think my friend is gonna make a full recovery and not sure how he feels about taking drugs again but my other friends and I learned from it and are never going to do drugs again. I'll never forget this and it's had a dramatic affect on all our lives that anyone of us could have died if possibly had 1 more capful of GHB. 1 of the ingredients in GHB is POISON and we didn't know that. I'm not sure my relationship with my friend now because I wouldn't give POISON to my enemy.

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Name: Steve
City, State: omaha,ne
Date: August 19, 2000
Comments:

I just wanted to tell everyone who thinks about doing GHB not to do it and if you are doing it please quit now!! It was just two days ago on august 16th I took some GHB at about two forty-five in the morning. About one hour later my girlfriend found me passed out in my own vomit, she went and woke up my parents they all tried to help they were trying to make puke cause they thought I was choking it turned out that I was in a semi-coma and my vomit was going into my lungs. After they called 911 and the ambulance took me too the hospital I ended up waking up, frightened, surrounded by people I didn't know, I didn't know where I was and I felt like I couldn't breath which I couldn't at the time cause I didn't have my breathing tube in yet. Well I finally woke up again from constantly passing out in the hospital, and the breathing tube was in for many hours before they gave me a shot of Demerol too make me go to sleep so they could clean out my lungs from choking on my own puke, I ended up being in the hospital till today which is august 18th, I thought I would try to find some web site like this so I could leave my story for people that want to listen and survive, mom, dad, jessica, sorry for scaring the [heck] out of you guys I didn't know what I was doing and I will never try g again.

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Name: Janet Pecoraro
Email: janet@teambigbear.com
City, State: Big Bear Lake, CA
Date: August 18, 2000
Comments:

While driving to work today, I passed Tony, Kyle's dad. For the rest of the day, Kyle was on my mind. When I had some time I searched on GHB and found this site. Tony, Elise and Sarah, you know how I feel and I want you to know that I think of you guys a lot and have such fun memories of when our kids were younger!. And maybe Kyle knows I'm thinking of him today (as I have often since his tragedy).
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Name: Jen
City, State: 
Date: August 17, 2000
Comments:

Add one more victim to GHB....20 year old kid in Valdosta, Georgia. Valdosta is a haven for every drug in the world.....this time the haven took a high school classmate.

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Name: Anonymous
City, State: sacramento, california
Date: August 15, 2000
Comments:

I received an E-mail from ArcaMax Ezines (one of those companies that mails you daily with special deals and offers) that had a link to a web site "Talking With Your Kids About Tough Issues" (http://www.talkingwithkids.org/local.html). It's a somewhat informative site on discussing sex, drugs and violence with your children. Under the "Resources" tab, it has some great links to Organizations, Web Sites (this one for instance) and Books. Anyway, that's how I got here and now that I'm here....WOW! I had no idea how deadly this drug is. I am truly sorry for your loss and hope that as time goes on, the pain lessens. I hope this website helps your healing process in knowing how many lives you are saving by informing the public of this very dangerous drug. Thanks to all of the information I've learned from this site, I will be able to warn my children (10 & 11) about this drug and I'm going to have my teenage step-daughter visit it as well. However, I have to admit, I've experimented with drugs in the past and still do occasionally to some degree. Had I not visited this web site...who knows, I might have even tried this one given the opportunity. Now, if the opportunity arises, not only will I say "no" but I will ostracize it's use and relay some of the horrible experiences I've read here to hopefully scare anyone out of using it.
Being of a somewhat curious nature, I did a search on "Renewtrient" and the first sight listed was described as Renewtrient, Soma Solution, Zen, SomatoPro, Inner G, GHRE, Kava, Noni, Backscratcher and more. Liquid Nutrition - The Wave of the Future (yeah right!). It is unfathomable to me that these people are allowed to sell this stuff on the internet. I have a friend that is a pharmacist and he takes "KAVA". It sounds like the "high" effects are the same as GHB, but they claim it to be "natural". What's the lowdown? Can anyone tell me anything about it?
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Name: Anonymous
Date: August 10, 2000
Comments:

GHB was slipped into my drink 6 nights ago and it almost killed me. If my dad had not found me and called the medics when he did, I would have been dead in thirty minutes. I was breathing four times a minute. This drug kills and it needs to be taken off of the streets!
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Name: Anonymous
City, State:
Date: August 09, 2000
Comments:

Thank you for providing a wealth of information on-line on this mysterious, unknown drug. My husband is going to talk to a friend tonight who has been abusing it and claiming it's non-addictive, non-threatening effects. This site has been a powerful resource for us in knowing how to confront him about his problem. Pray for us that we would know the right words to say and for him that he would have the strength and courage to give it up and walk away.
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Name:
City, State: nyc
Date: August 08, 2000
Comments:

i have 2 friends who are 19 and both have been admitted to the hospital, one of them 3 times...for the same drug, GHB. The last time they both went into comas for 10 hours, one with a 50 percent chance of living and the other with a 20 percent chance (less because he had consumed alcohol as well). A year ago a "friend" spiked my alcoholic drink with the same drug in hopes of taking advantage of me while in a drugged state...i spent 2 days vomiting but i was lucky that i didn't get raped or fall into a coma. Something needs to be done and i only hope that to you or anyone that has someone close to them who takes this drug that they pull through safely.
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Name: Anonymous
City, State: Not Listed
Comments:

I am a recovering GHB user, it indeed almost ruined my life. What started out as an amazing experience over time became a nightmare. I was introduced to G in Vegas in 96. I had been a recovering alcoholic sober for 3 years, a friend said how amazing this stuff was and how one "cap" would keep u high for hours. So I tried it and fell in love...BIG TIME

I went from a couple of caps on the weekend to investing in larger bottles eventually buying by the gallon!!! After a year and a half i was completely hooked.  All my friends were "g- babies." We were so proud of it too!!! The first time a friend passed out in a club and was taken by ambulance to the hospital I was mad at her, how dare she ruin my night. It got so out of control I was passing out all the time wherever I went, but I still couldn't stop. I would try but I loved it so much, I lost friends and not one but 2 very meaningful relationships over my G usage. I went so far as to tell my dealer not to sell to me anymore and he would not. Of course i tried elsewhere and wound up with poison, then it was on to the health food store for something that came close. I ended up freaked out crazy and paranoid after all my g use. I packed up left town and never went back. Unfortunately I had to deal with this on my own because doctors on the east coast had barley heard of GHB in 1998. I have been clean from it for 2 years now but I have to say I think I will always miss it. I don't know why I got so lucky. I should have died at least a thousand times and didn't, but I will always Long for my G, So please if you haven't used it DON'T if you are STOP no good can come from it!!!!!!!!

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Name: S.L.
City, State: Berwick, LA
Date: August 02, 2000
Comments:

I believe GHB is a very dangerous drug and i wish everyone felt this way. i lost 3 of my very close friends because of this drug and almost 2 others. everyone should be properly informed about the effects of this drug before considering it. loosing someone you are close to is very hard and you should consider what you are doing to other people before you do this to yourself.