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**Caution: Some comments may be disturbing to read, but we feel that to sugar-coat these comments would undermine the purpose of this site. Name: Sis I extend my condolences to all those who suffered losses of family & friends to GHB. My brother is 19 years old and overdosed on GHB last week. It was the scariest thing my family & I have ever been through. We are 3 sisters & he is our only brother. I simply can't imagine what our lives would of been like without him with us! God has truly blessed my brother & us as well, with this 2nd chance! A 2nd chance, that unfortunately not everyone gets. SO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT LITTLE BROTHER! In the past, he has tried this drug (GHB) several times, but this time things turned out differently... he almost died. He was out with friends & the diluted GHB was on the table right next to the concentrated liquid GHB. Mistakenly, he consumed the concentrated liquid, swallowed a bit, and then immediately spit the rest out. He fell to the floor & experienced a seizure. Luckily the other with him called the paramedics. When they arrived they intubated him, in order to help him breath. "He was extremely lucky", is what all the doctors say & I know it my heart this is all but too true! It was the most terrible thing I have ever experienced, to see him tied to that hospital bed & see his body & reaction to the drug (coma-state then shaking, confusion -- he could hear us & yet he thought he was dead at this time). My brother has already been released from the hospital. Currently, he is a
rehab program in a excellent hospital. His parents, sisters, cousin, aunts, my
fiancé & I (oldest sister)-- we are supporting him, as he gets through this
difficult time in his life (as well as in our lives)! I pray to God everyday,
every chance I get, that he forgets that dark world of GHB & other
substances he would used, and finds the light within himself... peace....
happiness... love!!!
Name: Jennifer This drug to me is very scary! I didn't really understand the causes and the effects of this drug until today when my teacher explained it to the class. Also there is a high school nearby to where I live that three boys put a teacher in the hospital. This is a very serious drug and should be taken very seriously! So just watch you drink and take it with you everywhere you go. thanks :)
Name: Anonymous I have used GHB once before. I was at a rave and on 3 tabs of XTC and had been told by friends that GHB would really "make my roll on XTC more intense!" So I finally decided to try it. Me and a friend on XTC that had never tried GHB either were going to split one capful for $5. When the dealer found out we had never tried it, he insisted on giving us each a cap for the same price we were originally going to buy for $5. His treat. When we went to his truck to get it, a guy was passed out cold in the
passenger seat. He laughed and told us that this was his buddy, and he had drank
too much G--2 caps. We should have known not to take any then, but we were so
gone from the XTC...
Name: Cheryl Brennan I lost my 46-year-old brother June 1999. He died in a head on collision with a loaded cattle truck. He had just been to a COMPANY party where several present had been taking Renewtrient. I have no proof that what happened to my brother was because of the drug - but I believe it was. His body was burned too badly and - of course all who were involved denied even taking the drug that night. My beloved brother, David Dunn, was turned on to this drug by his boss. David came to my house telling me he had found a miracle cure for everything that had ever ailed us. I believed him. Together we got on the Internet and ordered a whole case of the stuff from a place in Florida. We both took it for about three months. I was not taking as much as my brother and I will not lie - I liked it. My brother was taking two capfuls about every two hours. He was about 6'3" - a big man. I heard a news story on my radio one day about a man falling over dead from the stuff and that they were taking it off the market. I poured all I had left down the sink and called David to tell him we had to get rid of all of the stuff NOW. Bless his heart, he could only tell me how angry he was that I destroyed mine. He said he would have bought it off me if I had only given him the chance. A month or two later I realized he was addicted and there was nothing I could do to help him - I never realized it would take his life. My hope was that he would run out and that would be that. He told me one day that he didn't have any more and could not find a way to buy any but his boss (money being no object) had found another supplier and they had plenty so when he wanted some he could get it from him. He left his home one night to attend a company meeting 30 miles away in the next town. At the meeting they had alcohol, Renewtrient, and very little food. On his way home that night he had a head on collision with a loaded cattle truck. He left behind three daughters. Two of them (twins) were 16 years old and two grandsons, his mother, father and two sisters. He was my only brother. I loved him and I miss him more and more every day.
Name: Anonymous On Friday night my friends and I decided to try the drug GHB. We didn't know
what it was they told us it would make us happy. Everyone was going along with
it because they thought it would be funny to see how we would react to the drug.
Unfortunately, in the end it wasn't a joke. My best friend lay unconscious until
911 was called. They picked up and had to pump the acid from her stomach. The
next night my friend demanded that she did it again. She didn't learn her lesson
and I don't know if she ever will. I feel terrible and there's nothing I can do.
I cant tell her parents cause they no longer live her. I hope you learn a lesson
from this lesson. GHB sucks man, and besides the fact that this happened the
taste is beyond me. You will never ever taste something worse. I gag thinking
about it,
Name: Kathy Roberts I would like to say congratulations to all of you who realized that drugs are a waste of your health, your time, and your money. It is a shame that is takes a tragedy to make people wake up, but some times that's just what it takes. I commend all of you for sharing your experiences. I think the whole world should read about this. There are too many people who are deeply involved in drug and alcohol abuse and can't seem to find a way out. They always make lots of excuses about why it's okay. In all reality, it is not. Kathy Roberts
Name: Anonymous I was at a party and they where passing out this weird liquid, but I didn't
take any. Then I saw the 20/20 show and realized what they where passing around,
I cant believe I was so close to death.
Name: Anonymous I am 27 years old and I am STILL being amazed at what my generation is experiencing with. The things I have read tonight have made me cry. I sit here at my PC with tears in my eyes, especially for the parents who have lost their children due to this horrible drug that became so main stream so many places. I myself have tried GHB, but I had GOOD friends who knew how much my little frame could handle. I trusted my friends and they never did me wrong. THANK YOU FRIENDS, but to hear about friends just allowing their friends to "sleep it off"? Who needs enemies with friends like that? What made me open my eyes on how bad GHB was…? We were out on the beach one-day at a popular outside tiki bar when my sister's ex boyfriend approached me. He asked me if I had any friends that could get him some GHB? I pointed him in the right direction but not before warning him of the side effects. He wanted to "party" so he shrugged off my comments and headed towards the "party". About 10 minutes later he walked up to me and I could instantly tell something was wrong. I asked him if he was OK? I received no response. He just stood there. He was looking at me but right through me at the same time. Right about that time his knees buckled and he went down and he went down HARD. We called this "floundering". You know, like a fish out of water. Instantly everyone who knew what he was on and/or who was on it themselves ran everyone, but me and one of my really good friends. We never left his side. He couldn't control himself and urinated all over and in front to the entire tiki bar. The tiki bar was so popular that there were people there from his work and church and by the way, his dad is a minister. The bar called 911 and he was taken away on a stretcher, right there on the beach. We sat in the ER for hours before I finally walked right through the doors into the emergency room. I was kicked out several times before his nurse allowed me back. When I turned and saw him lying there with all the tubes and needles in him all I could do was cry. At the same time I saw him, he saw me. He started crying too. He had no idea what had happened to him or how he ended up at the hospital. He couldn’t remember a thing. I tell him that might be the best thing. He is fine. He learned a lesson the hard way. ANYONE doing it or thinking about doing it, please consider this... What if
you’re around a bunch of people, you fall out and no one comes to your rescue,
are you ready to give it all up? Think about it.
Name: Allison Wake up people! This is not a joke! GHB is tearing us apart. It has become such a staple at all the circuit parties, all the clubs, and raves. It seems like the normal thing to do. But is it really? You and the crowd that you hang with, set the "norm" and it becomes "normal." It is such a new drug and everyone who uses it ends up using it irresponsibly. My theory is, there is no responsible way to use this deadly drug. One bad batch of "G" and you are down for the count. My experience is this: I have used GHB in conjunction with ecstasy on numerous occasions and was always wondering what the hype was from the media and the government. Nothing had ever happened to me until this past Sunday, anyway. I guess I was found on the dance floor unconscious and not breathing on Sunday morning. I was carried out of the club on a stretcher and taken to a nearby hospital. All I remember is dancing and then waking up on my back. I thought I was still on the dance floor. There were people surrounding me only I couldn't speak or move. I was paralyzed and unconscious. Scared to death about what was happening to me, my life repeatedly flashed through my head. I was going to die! I couldn't breathe, yet I was unconscious and knew this. I could still hear the music going in my head and the disco lights flashing in my eyes. I couldn't breathe and I was stunned. People were saying, breathe, Julie, breathe...Only that wasn't my name. Who were they talking to? Turns out, they were talking to me. I didn't have an ID on me and the paramedics thought my name was Julie. Pretty scary. I thought I had swirled out on the dance floor and was still at the club not able to breathe. I thought I was going to die right there. In actuality of my delusion, I was in the hospital. That disco music was the frantic noise of the ER and the bleeping of the heart monitor. Those disco lights were actually surgical lights being shined in my face. I don't even remember the paramedics taking me out of there or even the ride to the hospital. I was not responding to pain and they had to restart my heart by exerting an extreme amount of physical force to my sternum. When I finally regained consciousness, I was told that My heart rate had gotten down to 40 (normal is around 80). I stopped breathing and was brought back to life by my saving grace. A wonderful trauma team! They also told me that if the paramedics had arrived 10 minutes later, I would've died. Amazing. I cannot begin to tell you the trauma that I woke up to. One minute enjoying the energy of this fabulous drug and the next minute being taken down by it. Waking up with a catheter in its place, IV's all over the place, tubes down my throat, surgical tape all over my body, buck naked under a thin sheet in the trauma unit where it was 50 degrees. I was freezing and shaking all over. Sobbing and puking all over the floor when I finally realized my misery and where I was and why I was there. Ashamed at what my mom would think and feeling such an immense guilt for her in thinking of what I could've put her and all of my family and friends through. All for what? A stupid night spent doing something we've ALL been warned about over and over and over?? My friends tell me that I should just be happy to be alive and I am - Don't get me wrong. I am extremely depressed from this incident and do not know how I am going to cope with this fear. I do know that my partying days are over and I hope I can get through the mental trauma. I hope that maybe my story can help save one of you out there that is thinking about doing "G." It is not worth it one bit. If there is anyone out there that would like to email me I would love to hear your thoughts on this matter. I wonder if there is some kind of support group out there for survivors of this? If not, there needs to be one.
Name: Door Girl I work at a club in a college town in Alabama and I have seen the works of GHB. Just last weekend a 22 year old scooped out in the club and fell down three stairs onto the dance floor. Blood was everywhere. He busted his chin open and broke a few bones. Although he didn't die, GHB isn't something to play with. The guy said he purchased three caps at $5 a piece. He could of died from $15 worth of this drug. So, be careful.
Name: anonymous On March 9th and 10th, Ann Currie from the Today Show, hosted a special two-part segment on date rape featured on the Later Today Show. The March 9th show specifically discussed GHB, warning signals, and symptoms.
Name: Anonymous A few days ago...Mardi Gras actually, I wanted to get messed up...realllly messed up. I didn't want to be able to walk straight, wanted to just forget everything...have a good time. There was a fair in town and I decided to ask a friend of mine for something...I didn't care what, just something. Her friend was like a [darn] pharmacy. She handed me three sleeping pills, two uppers (hyper pills), and they kept talking about this GHB junk. They seemed pretty out of it, so I was like...why not? I think I took about a half of a capful...about five minutes later, I couldn't walk straight. that's what I wanted, wasn't it? but then it was 8 o'clock...and I started passing out on my boyfriend...in and out of consciousness. I thought it was the sleepers.... passed in and out all night. I would wake up, start yelling at a friend of mine 'cause he was making too much noise and I was so exhausted...so lost. I go to school two days later, and start asking friends...'what the [heck] is that stuff I took?' and their reactions shocked me. "You did what?! That stuff is worse than coke!!" I'm not a big druggie...at least, I don't think I am. I've done weed, but so have many of my friends...doesn't make them bad people. But I never did acid, or meth, or heroine, or even speed...none of that stuff. But then I go to school to find out that I did something so lethal? And then I go look it up on the net to find out that it's floor stripper??? I don't think I will ever take drugs that I've never heard of again. I just don't understand how I could've just taken it and not known...I figured it was something weak, something I'd never heard of, I had been warned about all the bad stuff, right? Nope. Found out I was dead wrong.... At least I'm still here. But it doesn't end there...I was still messed up the next day. I know I have really low tolerance, but I was still feeling great two days later. It really worries me, because this stuff might have had Very Permanent Side Effects. I really don't know what's going to happen, I'm just never taking that stuff again....
Name: Anonymous My girlfriend died 2/29/00 from a mix of alcohol and GHB. She may have also been raped by two men during this time. These were people she knew and trusted. [Names withheld] - you know what you did to her. And now everyone else must know also.
Name: Anonymous I just had to live with a case story of the drug Verve from one of our daughter's friends! she drank this stuff called Verve at a party. Her friend had to drive her home, she couldn't walk! on the way home she passes out! The girl had to carry her in the house her friends then got her mom to come see about her! she was unconscious on he floor! they called her dad. He rushed over they called 911/EMS to come get her! EMS stuck oxygen and 3 ammonia tabs on her nose to no avail! She was brought to the hospital and stayed in ER for hours! Luckily the girl survived! the ER MD said if she would have drank a capful more she probably would not have made it! I am very thankful because this could have been my daughter she was at this party too, but she claims she only tasted the stuff! they need to take this stuff off the market ! These kids today DO NOT know what they are doing! we are just thankful this a success story and not a tragedy!
Name: Anonymous I just wanted to let you in on my experience with GHB. I went to a "rave" recently and I always loved going to them because you meet so many people and you have such a great time. Well the last rave I went to is the time I tried "G". I had fun I am not denying that. But when I awoke 2 mornings later, my body felt as if it needed more to continue. I still feel as if I need it for my body to work. I am sooo depressed and I just want to go get high but I am stopping myself because I know its stupid. PLEASE DONT DO G. I hate what I am going thru right now and if I could turn back time I would! Its not worth it. The next day that I had done it a guy that I was partying with the night before had to go to the Emergency due to a G overdose. He lost control of what he was doing. And was actually drinking the "g" itself. KEEP AWAY!!!
Name: Anonymous For about six months I have been using a product called Genex (a GHB substitute) that I get at my gym. The trainer told me to take 1/2 cap (about 1/2 oz.) two nights on and one night off. I take it at about 12 midnight, right before bed and I am wide awake at about 5:45 am and feeling totally energized and my body feels really lean, and I go straight to the gym and run a few miles and the lift for an hour. So in this aspect I think it is a good thing since I hated even getting up by 8 am before using this drug. But -- I also can see how there is a great danger with this drug and similar products. I have on occasion taken more than my trainer told me to and I can tell you, it messes you up. Sometimes I feel good the whole time and nothing happens; other times I do really stupid things because I feel so good at the time I don't care and the next day I'm ashamed; other times I puke and I feel like crap the whole time and feel really dizzy like I'm going to pass out. Many of my friends are addicted to it and spending stupid amount of money just for a capful (like $20 bucks) and some of the girls I hang out with end up having sex with people they don't want to because, at the time, they didn't care or were passed out. So I quit taking it for recreational use and minimized my use of it for bodybuilding (two weeks ON/ one week OFF; during ON weeks I use it two nights ON / one OFF) and I am still seeing positive results. The bad thing is that there are too many factors to consider when taking this drug. Different products come in different sizes, and different concentrations of the active ingredient. So if you take a half oz. of one product you may only need to take 1/8 oz. of another to get the same effect. Also body weight is a factor - if a 220lb. body builder gives his 105lb. girlfriend the same amount he takes, that's too much for her. And also (speaking from my personal experience) it makes a difference if I take it on a full or empty stomach. Sometimes when I took a cap for recreational use after eating I could hardly feel the affects but if I took the same cap on a completely empty stomach it messed me up bad. Anyway -- be careful, it's dangerous.
Name: Anonymous First, would like to extend my greatest sympathy to those who have lost and loved one to this drug of the devil and those who are currently addicted....Help is around you. I have had to involuntary experiences with this drug, GHB.. I work in a bar
where everyone is a muscle head. I knew this stuff was around but didn't think
it would come to me since I thought I knew everyone well. Well, I can drink and
this night I only had a couple..i stopped drinking early...I woke up the next
morning still in the bar and not remembering anything. To think I was knocked
out for 8hrs
Name: Anonymous I once had a beautiful dear friend. Thanks to GHB I no longer have my friend. She stopped breathing on her 31st birthday due to GHB. She had a body builder friend give her this drug. She had a similar episode to the night of her birthday and he did nothing. She still used the drug. She was not aware of what could happen to her. What can I do to help spread the word?
Name: Anonymous I first came to San Francisco in 1980 as another Gay refugee from an intolerant America. By 1991 over 100 of my friends had died from AIDS. The following four years were spent traveling with my partner of 15 years, Rob. We always came back to San Francisco for visits home, because this was the place we had spent the best years of our lives together as a couple. In 1995 Rob died from AIDS. In 1998, four years after Rob's death I met a man while living in Frankfurt. He was 25 years my junior and I dealt with parental, paternal instincts for the first time in my life. He brought me more joy and more love than I ever thought possible again after Rob's death, but in a different way. He was HIV negative and one of the best examples of the success of the tolerant compassionate European attitude toward Gay sexuality. I was proud of his responsible mature attitude toward safe sex. When he told me his dream was to come to visit San Francisco I thought it was a good opportunity to renew my love for this city. He planned to stay for three months. Like a good parent I warned him about the irresponsible behavior I had personally witnessed in many Gay men in San Francisco with regards to unsafe sex. He told me there was no drug in the world that could ever break down his resolve to always use a condom. Like most Europeans I had met, he was horrified that any Gay man would do otherwise. For several weeks I felt my German friend pulling away from me and getting more distant. He was losing sleep and going into a deep depression. Finally he broke down and told me the truth. He had been afraid and embarrassed and ashamed of what had happened to him. He had been given GHB and was penetrated by an HIV positive man, without a condom. This HIV positive man knew my friend was negative and my friend had told him he didn't want to have unprotected sex. This GHB "Date Rape" happened in a private home! My friend flew back to Frankfurt because he couldn't stay here another day after what had happened. For four months he was depressed and suicidal as he waited for his first HIV test. He has broken off all contact with me because I remind him too much of San Francisco. Before the rape he was told the big lie about GHB; that it is harmless, that it is a natural substance that the body produces on it's own. So there is more danger to GHB than passing out or dying form a combination of GHB and alcohol. It wrecks people's lives in many ways!
Name: Anonymous To those of you who think "This will never happen to me" think again. GHB is dangerous. I had my first and hopefully my last experience with it last night. I'm from a small "Mayberry" kind of town and I never expected this. Some friends and I decided to go to a club out of town (another small town called Lawton Oklahoma) and meet some of our other friends there. The place was crowded and I kind of got lost from my friends. This man asked me to dance and we did.. He then bought me a drink claiming "Try it, you'll like it" so I sat talking with him for a few minutes, and by now I was on my third drink of the night. I had half of the last one down (the one he had bought) when another friend of mine found me and asked me to dance. About twenty minutes later I started feeling dizzy, so I went into the bathroom. By the time I got into the bathroom I was feeling sick so I figured I'd sit down and maybe that would help.. but then my head just dropped and I leaned over and just knew I was gonna pass out so I got up and stumbled my way out the bathroom door where a friend of mine was waiting for me, and low and behold, the man who bought my drink was standing there too.. I told my friend I didn't feel so good, and no sooner did I say it, I collapsed. I only remember bits and pieces of the rest of the night. My friends carried me to my car where I was asked numerous questions by them like "Do you know your name?" Do you know my name?" Do you know where you're at?" I was barely responsive. I couldn't move, I had trouble breathing, the world was spinning, I couldn't talk, and then I started to vomit and couldn't stop. They finally put me in the back of the car where I passed out. They drove me home (to my friends house, we live an hour away from Lawton) The scary thing about this is, aside from the very few memories of the night that I DO have, anything could have happened to me. Had my friends not been there, I'm almost certain that it would. When we got to the house (Which I don't remember AT ALL, this is all what I've been told) My friend and his girlfriend got me out of the backseat, carried me into the house, put my hair up in a pony tail, took off my jacket, shoes, socks and belt and rolled me over on my side. I didn't wake up or move for any of this. ANYTHING could have happened to me and I NEVER WOULD HAVE KNOWN THE DIFFERENCE!!!!!! This is all a happening of GHB. I am not a drug user by any means, and I never plan to be. It's been about 16 hours since this happened and I still feel horrible. How dare people do this to the unexpecting? I have a life to live and enjoy and it COULD have been taken away because someone evidently had a plan. I have a plan too, and that's just not part of it.
Name: Anonymous My husband started using GHB about a year ago, then dropped down to something "so-called" safer, just different name and now takes Renewtrient "for the muscle". I have witnessed him overdose about four times (throwing up and moaning and groaning), so that scared my really badly that I was totally against this. He's always told me how safe it is. HE buys it from a health-food store to justify his use. It is ruining our marriage because he is the most tender, sweet, lovable, although shy, man when he leaves the house in the morning, and the next time I see him, he is irritable, cocky, says and does things he normally wouldn't do. I confront him every time because I know when he's taken it, and he totally denies it to no end, which is making me crazy because I know he's lying to me. I can never prove it, unless I go digging in his car for evidence, which is a daily routine of mine now, and then I have my evidence and he gets so defensive then and sort of mean, which he has never ever been. I don't know how to deal with this because after reading everything on this site, I think he's doing it all day long even at school. Please give me guidance. I don't want to lose him to this drug. I love him, not renewtrient.
Name: Sarah Until about two weeks ago I had no idea what "G" was. I was at my ex-boyfriends house and him and some of his friends were sitting around drinking Mountain Dew. I thought this was strange because he doesn't drink carbonated sodas. I asked for a sip because I was thirsty and he said "Only drink a sip, and if you like it.. get your own" Then he told me it had "G" in it. He told me "It's what bodybuilders use" and "it makes you feel drunk with out having to drink a lot of alcohol" I thought it sounded kinda cool. Until we went inside to go mix some more for me. We went to go get his vials of it from his room and saw that it had eaten THROUGH the thick plastic vials. WHY would you want to put something in your body that EATS through plastic? Imagine what that does to your STOMACH! I said I didn't want to take it. They went and bought some more from this guy who sells it. Later that night my ex took about 2 capfuls and was passed out drooling all over himself and had even peed in his pants. He doesn't remember that at all. One of his friends wanted to see if he was awake and so he punched him right in his face.. he didn't even budge. I was scared that if I would have taken it that I would have been passed out and raped. "G" is really scary because different people react differently to it. Some of his friends didn't even feel the effects. It is SO unpredictable!! Don't poison your body with this JUNK! If you are considering trying "G" I am not gonna tell you not to.. do what you want to do.. But only if you are ready to die. You COULD. |
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