Project GHB Contact Information

We would like to recognize:

• Cooley Advertising  for their enormous assistance to Project GHB, Inc. [brochures & posters]
   
• NAADAC - "...the premier global organization of addiction focused professionals who enhance the health and recovery of individuals, families, and communities."

"I became involved with Project GHB approximately one year before the death of my son, Benjamin Croman. At that time it was "Ashes on the Sea." I desperately needed help as my son was heavily addicted and came close to death. I needed information to help him and to become educated myself. I have been in the business world for 35-plus years and am honored to serve on the board of Project GHB."

Mother of Kyle Hagmann, a young man whose tragic death was ignored by a law enforcement agency.  The supplier continued to sell drugs on the college campus for three more years before finally being arrested on a drug charge.  This is another case where the system failed to bring about closure and justice, being left on the shelf until it was too late (by about two weeks) to prosecute for manslaughter (California has a three-year statute of limitations on manslaughter cases) though numerous other cases had been successfully prosecuted by that time. 

Suki has been the South Florida team leader for Project GHB since 2003 . She became involved with Project GHB after the DEA referred her to Trinka Porrata in response to her inquiries to the agency about the drug that caused the demise of her only child, Julius Samuel deJong. Julius passed away on Sept. 9, 2002 from an accidental drug overdose in a Miami apartment. He had been using GHB for a year, and although other drugs were involved, all his friends said it was the "G" that did it.

As a filmmaker, it became her mission to investigate her son's death. When it became clear to her through interviews with his friends and others that GHB was indeed addicting and lethal and her son had been taking it as a bodybuilding supplement and as an alcohol substitue in Miami clubs prior to his death, it became obvious to her that he was addicted to GHB, but probably didn't know it. She wanted to educate other young adults and parents about this insidious drug by producing a documentary film concerning the lethal and addictive qualities of GHB. She is now in pre-production for the 1/2 hour film in Sedona, AZ. The film is scheduled to be completed in May of 2007.

"I hope to make a positive contribution to Project GHB by the release of the film, Shattering the Silence. It's a story that desperately needs to be told, as GHB continues to be "the silent drug".

Suki deJong, Project GHB
Sedona, Arizona
Also: www.shatteringthesilence.com

Project GHB Board of Directors: