City, State: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date: July 18, 2002

Comments:

Someone I care about has a problem with GHB. His behavior on this drug has lead to arrests, tickets, a car accident, time in the work house and endless sleepless nights for his family. He goes through the cycles like this: He takes the drug, successfully manages his behavior for perhaps a few weeks... thinks he is in complete control based those experiences, then has a bad experience... does something inappropriate or stupid while taking the drug, gets caught, gets in trouble, feels remorseful for a short while (perhaps questions whether using the drug is a good idea, perhaps quits for a while)... resumes taking the drug after he is able to find another "rational explanation" for what happened. Then continues doing this over and over. He is only 24 and the use of this drug molds his life and prevents him from doing anything to better himself. We are sad. Every time he seems to get it together and vows to quit taking the drug, we see his life begin to turn around and come together... then he falls back into the same patterns. He is blind to how much this is hurting his family. We obviously need more awareness about this issue. Very few people I have encountered have even heard of GHB!

Name: Terry L. Jones
City, State: memphis, tenn.
Date: July 24, 2002

Comments:

Dear men and women of project ghb;

I am very thankful for this webpage to make the dangers of ghb known to the public. I came very close to dying due to ghb addiction and overdose. Only by the grace of God am I still here today because He has not finished with me yet.

I am a recovering alcoholic. I had gone about 12 years without a drink. I was into the workout thing for a couple of years toward the end before I ran into ghb in the independent health stores. I went in there regularly to buy protein powders, vitamins, etc. One day I went in and saw something different on the shelf. It looked like a tall shampoo bottle with a yellow liquid in it. I asked the owner what it was and he proceeded to explain that it was 23H furanone dehydro. The particular brand was called "Renewtrient". It was at that time about $90.00 a bottle. He said, " when your working out with weights, which I was, you can take a dose at night before you go to bed and it will put you in a stage 4 sleep which is considered to be the rpm stage (rapid eye movement), and when you are in this stage of sleep your body releases growth hormones to help you get bigger as your body slows way down on releasing growth hormones when you reach the age of about 21. I declined the first time as I didn't want to spend my money on something like that. The next visit I started looking at it again and there where 2 or 3 brands this time. He had some sample bottles and gave me one to take home as I was a good customer. I took it home and at bedtime I drank the whole sample bottle which was supposed to be about 4 or 5 doses. He didn't tell me how much to take. I lay down on the bed and within 10 min.'s the room starting spinning around and I was out cold. Because I was a recovering drug addict I was hooked instantly. I started buying the bottles. At first, a bottle would last me about a month. Then I started using it during the day as well as at night. I would use it at work, driving, and at night. I had some very close calls driving my vehicle. My tolerance increased rapidly. My workouts went to hell. I would often stop in a Kroger parking lot and find a out of the way parking place and put up my sun visors all the way around my truck so no one could see in and think it was just a parked car. I would then take a heavy dose and pass out for a couple of hours often waking up having urinated all over myself. My wife noticed something was not right with me and accused me of being on drugs again. I would deny it as I had been clean and sober for l2 yrs. Things got worse. I would get up in middle of night and fall down in the bathroom and be very disoriented. I started eating like a horse and gaining all my weight back. We started fighting more and more. Finally she asked me to leave after 22 yrs. of marriage and 2 beautiful kids. I moved out into an apt. and continued my use of ghb more and more. Sometimes I would miss as much as a week of work at a time. I would pass out, wake up, eat, take some more ghb, pass out, wake up, eat. It was a vicious cycle. My son or wife would call and I would not answer the phone because I would be passed out. I would have these weird, bizarre dreams while I was unconscious and waking up and not knowing how long or how many days I had been asleep. I was up to a bottle every 2 or 3 days now. I was buying it by the case as I could get a much better price. I would pay around $750.00 a case (12 bottles). Sometimes I would have 2 cases at a time in my attic. My wife called on another occasion and again I didn't answer the phone. I had passed over into some psychotic state and hallucinating severely and seeing people and talking to people that were not there. By the wonderful grace and mercy of God, He motivated her to come to my apt. If she had not come, I would not be writing this letter to you today. She knocked on my door, I answered and she saw me in a state of psychosis. Talking to myself and to other people when no one was there. My son was with her and witnessed it also. Oh, God have mercy on me for the way he saw his dad he loved so much. She called the paramedics immediately on her cell phone. They came at once along with the police. They immediately took my blood pressure and said I needed to get to the hospital right now. I didn't want to go as I was in a state of severe psychosis. The paramedic said I could either go with them or the police which were standing right behind him. I feel unconscious in the ambulance. I woke up 6 days later in intensive care with all kinds of tubes in me. I remember having 2 horrible nightmares while in the coma over and over. Dreaming that I had died. They thought I wasn't going to make it through the night. They gave me something like a 40 or 50% chance I wouldn't pull through as my liver and kidneys were shutting down. They then overdosed me with a drug called howldowl(maybe mispelled) that I had a allergic reaction to. As I said, I woke up 6 days later. When I got home I had to have a physical therapist come to my apt. for several weeks to help me regain my muscle movements. I swole up to about 300 lbs. from 220 lbs. After a period of recovery, I started drinking again which lasted about 2 yrs. which finally landed me in jail for 6 mo.'s because of two d.u.i.'s I received. The whole ghb thing started my drug and alcohol addiction all over again. In jail I recommitted my life back to Jesus Christ as I was already a Christian but had drifted away from Him. Christ has changed my life now and I am living for Him and He has taken the cravings for drugs and alcohol out of my life. However, I have lost my wife and children. I was married for 22 yrs. I want you to know that the ghb is what started all of this. There have been many lives lost in death and destruction of families because of this most horrible drug. God is bringing healing into my life again. Praise Him! Thank you for this web site that I hope will open peoples eyes and save lives.

Thank You,

Sincerely,

Terry Jones

Name: Anon
City, State: Atlanta, Ga.
Date: July 03, 2002

Comments:

While I am an advocate for the legalization of most drugs, including most of the ones you describe on your site, I think you're doing a good job. The lack of education of the real dangers of such substances is a sorrowful thing, and people need to know!

We probably disagree on some issues, based off of what I've seen, but for the good work you're doing - keep it up.