City, State: Marietta, Ok

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I have a daughter that will soon be 17. Next August she will start her final year of High School. She is planning on going to college after she graduates, she will have just turned 18 then. I worry about her getting slipped something and her not know it. She is small in stature, barely 5'. She is also very trusting of people. I have e-mailed her about this site. Thanks for being parents who care about the truth.

City, State: Westchester, Ny
 

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July1,2000 I ended up in a coma from a GHB over dose. I drank from a bouncer's Gatorade bottle that contained a major amount of GHB. I am lucky to be alive! Now I am in the middle of a legal battle. I am suing the club where the bouncer was working at. He told me he would take care of me because I drank way too much alcohol. For the rest of my life I will never know if I was raped. I just know that after I took his bottle of "Gatorade" I woke up pulling IV's out of my arms, and others tubes in places that I rather not mention. I have written many letters to a lot of people for help and no one responded. So I hired my own lawyer, and things are slowly under way. You never think in a million years that something like this can happen to you, and when it does you would hope people would be more support of. I was at this club because my fiancé and I had broken up, he was the first one to be by my side. He drove me down to the hamptons, and we went everywhere that we could get questions answered. I was treated like a druggy, like I was not the victim of any sort of crime. The ambulance had tally marks of the different clubs in the area with GHB overdoses that had occurred since memorial day. I think I was number 58, they had categories over different types of overdoses. And the Police Department is doing nothing! All of these clubs are still open and kids are dropping like flies. Well I am sorry I am not a senator's daughter but I am someone's daughter. My fiancé is a wonderful person he let's me use his email account to research all I need to know about this horrible drug. I am very lucky to be alive and I am so sadden for those whom lost their loved ones. I just needed to share my story in hopes of someone to read, maybe I can make a difference to one person.

During this past summer I decided to purchase some 1,4-Butanediol. I had first started using it because I had read that it released growth hormone and also because it got you high. Over some weeks I had used it more and more until about two months into it I had realized I was really addicted. I was at the point of using it about once every three hours every day. I would try to totally stop but all I could get up to was about six hours and then I would start shaking a lot and feeling like I was going to drop so I would have to take. After a couple of weeks of this my dosage got up to 10 ml every six hours and then finally I got to the point where I could not fall asleep. After I did not sleep for about three days I checked myself into the emergency room. I told them I was addicted to GHB and about what I was going through. They admitted me and hooked me up to a heart monitoring machine. When the six hour mark came I started shaking a lot and my heart rate was going up and up and then they started injecting me with Ativan and all I remember saying is I am starting to zone out, Is this normal? Then three days later I woke up in the Detox building with my dick really hurting. I think they must have put a tube up there or something. I spent another six days there taking Ativan and was discharged. This was the worst Experience of my life and I never want to go through it again. I did not realize I was becoming addicted until it was too late, I was just taking it because it was fun. The first few weeks after I got out of the hospital were really rough. I consumed large amounts of alcohol and was taking some xanax I had bought on the street for weeks. After about 40 days I was starting to feel better. I think it was so addicting because it was 1,4-Butanediol. I don't think I would have gotten addicted like that if it were pure GHB. My advice to all who want to use GHB is to use pure GHB and not !,4-Butanediol or GBL. If you do use 1,4-Butanediol or GBL only use it only once or twice a week at most. Even using it like that you may get minor withdrawal symptoms.

J.J.

Staten Island