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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: Anonymous I am the fiancé' of a 27 year old man who has been addicted to 'G' for approximately 18 months. I have seen and tried to understand some of the most bizarre behavior imaginable. It is a miracle the he is still alive today. He has 'fallen out' at the wheel of a car twice and totaled BOTH of those cars. Numerous times I would come home from work or wake up in the middle of the night or even just enter a room that he had been in for some time and find him passed out naked on the floor breathing erratically, sometimes holding his breath in his sleep, falling into his plate while out to dinner. He couldn't remember if I had said something to him 5 minutes after I had already repeated myself 10 times. In April of 2000 he was taken to an ER in a nearby city by a 'friend' because he was out partying and he had stopped breathing. He was in the ICU for 48 hours and when they took him off of the sedatives he signed himself out of the hospital and was angry that he was taken to the ER. On October 18,2000 he started to go through withdrawal. He was sweaty, his heart would be racing and all he would be doing at the time is sitting still, or should I say trying to sit still. We went through a few days of this along with high levels of irritability. Then.....the sleeplessness and hallucinations began. I called every hospital and treatment facility in my area and no one had ever heard of GHB. I ended up explaining it to them only to be told that they couldn't help me because they had never heard of it. Finally, his hallucinations were so terrible I took him to the emergency room and when I tried to explain GHB and what he was going through I was looked at as if I were on something. He became so irritated that we ended up walking out before he could be seen. Out of sheer desperation, I tried once again calling the local in patient treatment center. This time I was told to TRY calling the Poison Control Center. When I called they immediately knew about GHB and told me that I needed to take him back to the ER and have them call the Poison Control Center so they could best tell them how he should be treated. To make this long story short, we got nowhere. and he went back to using for a short time. He is now 8 days clean and attending NA meetings every night. The withdrawal this time was not anywhere as severe as the first time. There are so many other things that I have witnessed associated with GHB. I am frustrated, angry, amazed and shocked that when someone needs help with this DEADLY addiction, no one knows what it is or where to begin with treatment. If people are DYING from something the first ones to be educated about it SHOULD be our ER's and treatment centers. Thank you for listening to my story. If you are using, seek help and find your local NA program, addiction is a disease.
Name: Withheld I am a 40 year old woman...I am the victim of this drug being placed in my drink while at a bar with some friends. I had taken a young man with me because he could not drive at that time. We were not dating and I had no interest in this person. I allowed this man to buy me a drink because he want to "pay me back" for the ride. One drink lead to another. I had two drinks that night, after the 2nd drink I was totally out of it. I did not remember anything about that night when I woke up the next morning. Later I had found out this man put GHB in my drink with the intentions of raping me. He later admitting this to a friend who in turned warned others about him. I was also told that I was not the first woman he had do this to, I was just the lucky one because he did not rape me. A friend at the bar knew that something was wrong with me and knew I was not like that. She got my keys and drove me home before he even knew I was gone. This friend saved me from him that night. I was lucky, but the other ones were not. The next morning, I couldn't remember anything and was sick for the next two days.
Name: Anonymous I didn't know what GBL was but one of my friends had taken some and said he felt great. I drank the same amount as him and I am half his size. I could not throw up, even though I felt like I had to. I had a shortness of breath and was so dizzy I continually fell out of my bed. Had I known all the information on this web page about the dangers and what GBL really is, I would not have taken it. This was the scariest time of my life.
My 2 and 1/2 year old son, my 14 year old niece and myself have been home from the hospital for only hours. We were involved in a car wreck involving some "body builder" who had just ingested an entire bottle of "GHB". The driver apparently lost his mind and decided to run a red light plowing into my car. It's only by the grace of God and one of the best baby car seats money can buy that we are only whiplashed, bruised, cut, and extremely sore. I have heard of GHB as the date rape drug but had no idea the other "uses" of such a deadly and dangerous drug.
Date: November 17, 2000 Comments: My daughter-in-law is a bi-polar manic depressive who has left her home and
husband and had not been on her medication for her bi-polar condition. She has
moved in with an older man and has been "partying" non-stop for a
couple weeks. This man has been giving her cocaine, GHB, and X. She is on a
manic high right now but I am afraid when she crashes she will hit the bottom.
She had been in rehab before but I think it was for my son's benefit and not
hers. When she came out of rehab she went right back to the GHB, and now all the
other things. I do not know what effects GHB has on a bi-polar person who is not
taking her medicine. She also went off the medication (lithium, wellbutrine
etc.) cold turkey.
Name: Sara Quirion I came across this site because I too am a survivor of a GHB episode. I was given GHB slipped into my drink. About an hour after this I proceeded to throw up for 5 hours, until my parents were called and I was taken to the ER. It was given to me at a club as a date rape drug. I also experienced psychosis and was unable to make sense of myself. The doctor's said that if I was taken in only 5 min later, I would not have made it. I believe that this even forever changed me. I believe that people need to be better educated on the dangers of this horrible drug... *Sara*
Date: November 13, 2000 To Whom it may concern: While working on my car I had taken a couple of caps and that was it, till I awoke in the Emergency Room. It seems that while under the effects of this DRUG I aimlessly walk down toward the end of my street and went into respiratory failure. An Elderly woman saw me flopping around going into convolutions and call the police. When I cam to strapped down on the gurney with wires and IVs sticking all over me I realized that I had made the Worse decision Ever by taking the Renewtrient. Later that night I was released there was pain & remorse going through me for weeks, me Chest felt like someone had run over me with a Mac truck, they used the defibulators to shock me back to reality. There is only one good thing that came from this, that is a new found desire, a willingness never to use any kind of Drug or Substance again. People who sell this stuff as Dietary Supplements need to be locked up!
People who Sell these things will be Judged, I am not sure how they can look at
them selves in the mirror, knowing the Deadly effects of the crap that they dispense.
I haven't Touched the stuff or anything else since that night. Living Life to
the Fullest is living with out these mind altering substances, I am Free Again.
A Loving Friend
Date: November 13, 2000 Comments: My husband and I went to a club in Hollywood my husband was slipped
Name: Scott Riddle At 04:30 on 11-09-00 we responded to a possible GHB overdose. When we arrived we found a 28 y/o male pt. unconscious and unresponsive and vomiting profusely. when the ambulance arrived they advised they had transported this pt.'s friend 1 hr. earlier. Both pt's had a suppressed respiratory effort and were intubated and put on respirators in the emergency room. As of this date they are both comatose and in intensive care and their chances of recovery are questionable at best. What kind of fun is this drug ? Just something to think about. Lt. Scott Riddle Smyrna Fire Rescue
Name: Anonymous I was drugged with GHB this summer while I was at a bar in my college town.
IT was a week when a bunch of Harley Davidson bikers were going through town. I
struck up conversation with one of them at a this because I like bikes. That is
the last thing that I remember from that night and it was pretty vague.
Everything I know about that night is from what people that I was with and
people that saw me told me. I starting making out with this 50 some year old
biker man and don't remember anything about it. After that i ran out of the bar
like I was angry. My friends chased after me and no one could find me. The biker
guy and his friend had also followed me out. Luckily I found me friend from
work, he told me when I saw him I was being pushed around by 4 guys that were
touching me sexually and shoving me back and forth. At this time the biker guys
were still watching me. I ran to my friend and clinged on to him. I was hanging
on to him and stumbling and falling everywhere. There was construction going on
and the sidewalks were torn apart, I fell into a hole there. My friend said I
then started flipping out like I was on some crazy drug. He told me I started
thinking he was going to hurt me and I tried running away from him. Eventually
two girls who knew me said they would take me home. After I left in the car, the
biker guys stepped off to get there bikes. My friend said something to them to
leave me alone and go away. The one guy got mad and yelled at him. My friend got
two cops that stopped and questioned these bikers which caused them to lose site
of the car I was in. Thankfully I didn't get raped or very abused in anyway and
that I have some very good friends who saved my life that night. I woke up the
next day covered in mud that looked like bruises, crying, and had no memory of
anything at all that happened. The last thing I remember is a blurry face of
this biker guy that I'm sure was the one who slipped this in my drink. It's very
frustrating to me to think of what could have happened to me that night. You
people out there that do this are sick and disgusting. Comments: I think this is horrible. But I am glad that Judy didn't give up and fought for her daughters rights and others and i appreciate that because the way I see it is that she helped me also! And for that i thank her! I wrote an article in the News Herald when this first happened I knew Sam threw a boyfriend I was dating at the time his name was Guy Barley. I was also at the funeral. That woke me up to a lot of things! I now understand how important life really is and how fast it can be taken away. I never leave my guard down no matter who I'm around. I trust nobody and that's the way it has to be!!! But I wanted to thank Judy for all she has done and not giving up! I appreciate it more than you will ever know. A lot was lost from this and it's really not fair! Judy if you do end up reading this please e-mail me at allie_gator617@yahoo.com i wanted to tell you thank you for along time so thanks please though if you read this let me know by e-mailing me and once again thank you for all you have done for me!!! Alishia |
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