Name: JOHN
City, State: Auckland New Zealand
Date: April 26, 2003
Comments:

Hi
I work as A advanced Paramedic in Auckland, New Zealand.
New Zealand is increasingly having a problem with GHB.
I have spent several hours going through your site and am amazed at the work and the research that you have put into this.

For the people that decide to take this substance, please be so careful and ask yourself "The people that I am with can I count on them to look after me." As a Paramedic who has seen many and I mean many overdoses on G would like to give the following information.

When a drug such as this comes in a liquid form it is not possible to remotely guess or gauge the strength of mg/ml or gram/ml and as it so cheap and easy to obtain the suppliers are not as diligent or as tight as they are with other drugs such as MDMA or amphetamines.

If you decide to experiment with G you may find that you take 1.5ml on Thursday and everything is fine but on Saturday that 1.5ml put you in the back of my ambulance with a tube down your throat, so you can breathe and IVs in your arm. Different batches have different strengths so please for your own safety be safe.

As a paramedic working the city streets in little old New Zealand we have a ever escalating drug problem. The city I work in has a population of 1.6 million. Here are some facts and presentations of patients that I have seen on overdoses on G

Yes -no gag reflex

Bradycardia (slow heart rate) of 20

Full Apnea - that is no breathing Resp Arrest

Aspiration -vomit in the lungs and trachea

Bizzare uncontrollable violent muscle spasms.

Full body seizures

Urine and Fecal incontinence

Severe Hyperthermia

Trauma from the sudden collapse

Death

If friends go unresponsive or asleep or collapse call your EMS service. It is an offence not to give assistance. The assistance you can give is Recovery position. Check ABC and activate your EMS.

You can argue that ETOH and other drugs cause similar problems and I will not disagree. If i give you a glass of whiskey, you have a pretty good idea of how much whiskey is in it. Tell me how many mg or grams is in a teaspoon of G. This is the leading cause of Coma OVERDOSEAGE.

ETOH + G = COMA

Please be safe, look after your friends and call the EMS