1-14-08
Derby, UK
my partner was addicted to ghb and it was probably the hardest thing he has ever had to do to beat the addiction. when he came of it the first time he ended up being sectioned... it was awful. the idiot went back on it and yet again he was sectioned when the withdrawal
kicked in. he was hallucinating talking to people who weren�ft there and thought the whole world was out to get him... it lasted about 5 days in total and he has now been clean for over a year!!!!

1-23-08
Carmichael, California
I am 52 and took Xyrem from Orphan Medical for one week. Called Xyrem pharmacy to ask if what was happening was normal. Was told to call back next week. Called primary care doc with low pottasium issues. Was put off for two days. Didn't understand what was happening to my body or my mind so I didn't explain it to my sleep doc well enough to alert him. By end of week was at ER. Heart rate up to 170, respiration low as 4 and 5, blood pressure 40/30(according to my friends that were there with me. I have'nt picked up my records, yet) I was very confused. Xyrem pharmacy wasn't interested in what was happening and ER docs didn't know what to do for me. I appeared to be having seizures for about nine hours. They finally gave me a tranquilizer in my IV. My potassium was very low, causing terrible muscle spasms. They 5150'd me to keep me at the hospital for two nights. Then to add insult to injury they again 5150'd me to a mental hospital. By then I was out of the worst of it and found myself drained and surrounded by seriously mentally ill people. The psych doc apologized for how I was treated and sent me home the next day. I'm still torn up over the experience. Sleep doc was pissed at Xyrem pharmacy for not notifying him and my primary care fired me. Still trying to recover from my experience. I still can't believe they just send that stuff in the mail as dangerous as it is.

1-25-08
Stamford, Colorado
My sister got addicted to GHB she started making it blew up her hands and still continued to take it she blew up twice her size and is now diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia. She became completely living in her own world where nobody was who they said they were thinking people were in disguise trying to trick her. Everything was a conspiracy and this was not my sister-- a total opposite of her. Everybody thought is was funny at first-- oh she�fs crazy and the stuff that would come out of her mouth was hilarious . Then it wasn�ft funny anymore it got worse and worse. The doctors said its reversible with the proper treatment and medications but its been two years and she is a little better but i dont think she'll be the same again. I Love my sister but I'll never know her again and she'll probably never know who I am again.

2-5-08
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
On Sunday, January 27, 2008, my son--Andrew Anthony Fazio--attended a club in Toronto, Ontario, called The Comfort Zone. This club is well known for having a private club in the basement of the building that caters to GHB users. This club is opened from Thursday night to Monday morning. He purchased the drug in the parking lot, but I'm told that you can also buy it inside the club. He came home mid afternoon after having stopped to get something to eat. At home he and his friends had a small liquor bottle of GHB, he went to the bathroom came down took a hit of the GHB and because it left an awful taste in his mouth he grabbed the water bottle on the table forgetting that the water bottle also had GHB in it. Unfortunately, his friends did not call 911 thinking that while he lay on the floor that he was only sleeping and he would be fined. It wasn't until he started to vomit and his breathing became very shallow that they called 911. By the time the paramedics arrived at the house he had also started to vomit blood. My son died. Young people today just want the quick high. This has now changed so many lives. I no longer have my son. My daughter no longer has her brother. He leaves behind many aunts, uncles and cousins. Young people need to realize that they are not invincible and can die. Parents have to start taking a stand and start closing down rave clubs which cater to people who want to make money and sell this death drug to our children. My message to young people out there who are doing this drug - think about your family - you can die.
Karen Fazio

2-27-08
Tampa, Florida
I am a well known poet on MySpace and found your site very helpful as my ex-boyfriend is a GHB addict. A few days ago I found the site and it helped me to better understand my own situation. I wrote this a few days earlier while watching him lay in another blacked out state. Your poetry section seems to be for users but I felt this may be
helpful to others within the lives of users and perhaps to users themselves. Please let me know if you'd like to post it on your site.

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While They Lay Sleeping

You can stare into the eyes of certain death forever
Daydream that within your glare the light to life can be found
No matter how intense the gaze displayed
Hope can not burn through the chemical shield of an ailing soul

Poisonous are the meals consumed along the path to suicide
Each a sedation to the realization that only death lies ahead
Truth can touch a heart that bleeds ingested toxins
Though it falls upon skin too numb to allow its belief

Continuously kiss the forehead of a blacked out mind
Dream loves potion can somehow become the juice
That roams their veins to suppress the hopelessness
And tame the raging seas of venom that resides within

Believe the word forever when it slips through lips
Too medicated to comprehend its meaning
As their possible endeavor towards forever
Is too short a passage to ever fulfill its definition

No grasp can hold the hand of a tortured mind
Tight enough to vanquish the hunger for their truest adoration
Inhaled sin holds a beauty to which no human love can compare
As years blur into one never ending day of vacant survival

Recite a final parting prayer
Close your eyes and end your stare
To try to force a sight of light
Is to live within their darkness

-- Audrey Michelle
http://www.myspace.com/audreyliles

3-24-08
Ocala, Florida
On December 17, 2007 my sibling (born in January 90) died from an overdose of GHB. The dealer overdosed him and caused him to die.

4-1-08
United Kingdom
Yes drugs can be bad and yes they can kill. This I really don't deny. But to deny a society drugs goes against centuries and centuries of human nature. Humans have always needed things to help them forget, to help them escape the nuances of their everyday lives or to simply aid them in having a good time. I personally take drugs but that doesn't mean that I don't know how to have fun, as is indicated on your website. Think about how much easier life would be if instead of keeping drugs suppressed they were legalized. Police forces would be able to spend a huge part of their time doing something much more useful and tackling real problems. I mean who have a few stoners or a couple pill-heads ever hurt. Also truly what gives the government the right to stop people taking drugs if they want. Its a 'free' country after all. If drugs were legalized then it would be so much easier to control what goes into them (ie. Ecstasy Pills), leading to fewer deaths on account of pills containing unknown substances. I'm not saying drugs should be availabe to everyone and certainly not to minors. I myself am 16 and I can see the effects of drugs on my mind and I certainly don't deny that drugs do change you a bit. Its not
even the drugs themselves its the pattern of taking drugs, the fiends you make, the things you experience, the places you go, all these things make a life without them seem slightly dull. If drugs ere legalized I believe that people would be less desperate to try them. Take the age-limit for alcohol in the United States. How can it possibly be alright to buy a gun but still not be able to purchase alcohol. This disproportionate age limit results in millions of youth wanting to try for themselves what "all the fuss is about". I know that you probably won't even bother reading this but hell if you do try and think about a bit of what I've said. Regards, Happiness and Penniless

NOTE: Sorry but after years of being a police officer and seeing the damage drugs do and now realizing how limited �ereal�f treatment is for the aftermath of drug abuse, I just can�ft agree with legalizing drugs. Just not the right answer!!! I do hope, since you say you realize what drugs have done to your mind, that you avoid them in the future and have a long life ahead of you. --Trinka P

4-7-08
Melbourne, Australia
Accidental poisoning of my 32 year old friend with street grade GHB in a 50ml bottle. It was a clear, thick liquid. He had been drinking alcohol for approx 10-13hrs and was drunk. He then consumed 10ml over a 3hr period in 2-3ml doses. Between each dose, he was not gaining any effects, so increased to the 10ml over the above time period. He went home and slept for approx 4hrs (very erratically) woke, felt fine and went to work. Friend received call approx 3hrs after he started work and he was extremely vague & disoriented. He passed out shortly after to be found unconscious by a work colleague. He had stopped breathing and was woken by cold water over hi head, taken to hospital, induced into coma for approx 24hrs while he underwent brain scans, stomach pump,
lumbar drain etc. We have been advised that when mixed with alcohol, GHB stays dormant in the body until all alcohol is 'burnt off'. When the body is clear of all alcohol, the full effects of the GHB are seen. (Which explains this case, where the last dose of GHB was taken 7+hrs prior to overdose effects.

NOTE: The GHB analog 1,4 butanediol, which is common in Australia, does kick in slower than regular GHB or GBL because it does �gcompete�h with alcohol for processing. GHB and GBL are processed differently. Thus there can be a little delay in the onset with BD when someone has already consumed a lot of alcohol. A7-hour delay, however, seems a little extreme. I have to wonder if he took some more at work. In any case, I do hope he is OK. ---Trinka P

4-24-08
San Francisco
I was a 40 yr old business woman with children and going through a divorce after more than 15 yrs of marriage. You would think I would have known better or been aware of the dangers in a club. I met some friends of a friend at a San Francisco club. I was given GHB in my drink of vodka/cranberry. I thought it tasted odd (bitter, salty) but I was reassured by the guy who bought the drink that it was fine and the VIP bar probably just used cheap vodka. I was given two of these odd drinks. I remember being kissed and hardly able to walk. I was seeing triples as I struggled to hold my own head up (it was so
heavy). I began vomiting (profusely) when they took me outside to the car. I was taken to another city being assured by these three guys that they were there to take care of me and would take me to a safe place to "sleep it off". I felt safe and that I could trust their
words. I could not have been more wrong...they had sexual intercourse with me and I remember parts of it and I remember seeing condoms and I remember partial statements that were said during the event. I don't ever remember being able to say "no" or "stop"
but instead just sitting/lying there. I don't remember falling asleep or when the "fun" ended or how long it even lasted. I woke up in a home and I had no idea where I was and I was given a ride back to my car in San Francisco in complete silence. I cried for days and days...I should have known better...I should have been educated...I was 40 yrs old... I got a phone call from a friend of these guys telling me they had slipped GHB in my drinks...I should have known better, but I didn't. I have not been to a club since that night and I have never spoken to any of those involved. How embarrassing, how dumb could I be, how stupid I was!! I live with this every day and I am now 42 yrs old. I don't want this to happen to my daughters or my friends or anyone else. EVERYONE of ALL ages
should be educated about this drug. I wish I had known. I wish I could go back in time and not go out that night. I wish I knew...

4-26-08
Calgary, Canada

My friend accidentally overdosed on GHB at a rave. Not telling anything else.

6-1-08
Encino, California
THIS COMMENT IS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO DONT THINK THIS COULD EVER HAPPEN TO THEM!!! I went out on the 28 of May (2008) to a hookah
lounge in N. Hollywood with my friend, which is also my neighbor, and they were having a "Girls get in free b4 9" night. They had free drinks from 9-10pm so we decided to take advantage of the offer. We both had about 4-5 shots and we dont remember anything after that.
I woke up to see my ex-boyfriend trying to wake me by slapping me several times. I asked him how he found me and he said I had called him and told him "I dont think im going to make it through the night". I was found in my car with my pants unbuttoned and my money, a hundred dollar bill, taken out from my pocket.
My friend was found in the parking lot of the hookah lounge passed out on the floor with her pants undone by the dumpster. We both have absolutely NO RECOLLECTION of what had/has happened. Phone calls that i had made to people had been deleted out of my phone and my friends phone. I had vomited all over my car, hair, clothes and even the hookah lounge. When i woke up the next morning it was some time in the afternoon. My head was spinning, my body was sore, i was dizzy and had absolutely no appetite. I had an upset stomach for the next 4 days.
We went to the police department and filed a claim and were told we are "Possible rape victims". We got tested and now and investigation is taking place. It sounds so impossible, to have absolutely no recollection of what had happened, but its true. I later
on found out that i had been incoherent for 3 hours. I was fine at 10:40pm, and i was gone by 10:45pm. It happened in an instant.
BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR DRINKS!!! I never left my drink sitting unattended but someone somehow managed to slip me and my friend something right in front of our noses! I havent been the same since and its been a week. I cant stop thinking about who could of done it, all i can ask myself is why did this happen to me?