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A couple things about GHB:
1 - If anyone has ever tasted it - you will immediately notice how disgustingly salty it is.....to put enough of a hit in a drink of a woman (who is not already lit) to affect her judgement/make sleepy is almost impossible to do without her tasting it....Margaritas are a different story.
2 - Alcohol has caused FAR MORE date rapes than GHB ever will.
1 - If anyone has ever tasted it - you will immediately notice how disgustingly salty it is.....to put enough of a hit in a drink of a woman (who is not already lit) to affect her judgement/make sleepy is almost impossible to do without her tasting it....Margaritas are a different story.
2 - Alcohol has caused FAR MORE date rapes than GHB ever will.
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GHB Approved To Treat Symptoms Related To Narcolepsy
Lisa Morrison, Staff Writer
Updated: 10:15 p.m. EDT July 17, 2002
WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday approved the notorious date-rape drug, GHB for treating a small population of patients with narcolepsy who experience episodes of cataplexy, a condition characterized by weak or paralyzed muscles.
FDA Approves Date-Rape Drug
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Because of safety concerns associated with the use of the drug, the distribution of GHB, to be sold under the brand name Xyrem (sodium oxybate or gamma hydroxybutyrate), will be dispensed under some of the tightest restrictions ever imposed on a medication, according to an FDA news release.
In the early 1990s GHB, which was originally used as an anesthetic, was marketed as a dietary supplement, for enhancing athletic performance and sexual activity, and for inducing sleep.
GHB is probably best known for being abused as a recreational drug and for use in date rape. Colorless and odorless, it made headlines when people slipped it into drinks, knocking out victims who often had no memory of what happened.
As the result of a number of serious adverse events, including death, FDA officials intervened to prohibit marketing of GHB.
Xyrem, manufactured by Orphan Medical Inc., was designated Wednesday as a Schedule III Controlled Substance for medical use, meaning it cannot be sold, distributed, or provided to anyone other than for its prescribed use. Illicit use of Xyrem will be subject to the most restrictive schedule of the Controlled Substances Act, the FDA said in its news release.
Narcolepsy patients suddenly fall asleep from a few seconds to an hour. GHB doesn't treat that symptom. But approximately 20,000 to 50,000 narcolepsy patients also suffer from cataplexy, a muscle-weakness complication that can cause people to collapse without warning.
Lisa Morrison, Staff Writer
Updated: 10:15 p.m. EDT July 17, 2002
WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday approved the notorious date-rape drug, GHB for treating a small population of patients with narcolepsy who experience episodes of cataplexy, a condition characterized by weak or paralyzed muscles.
FDA Approves Date-Rape Drug
Do You Agree With Decision?
Because of safety concerns associated with the use of the drug, the distribution of GHB, to be sold under the brand name Xyrem (sodium oxybate or gamma hydroxybutyrate), will be dispensed under some of the tightest restrictions ever imposed on a medication, according to an FDA news release.
In the early 1990s GHB, which was originally used as an anesthetic, was marketed as a dietary supplement, for enhancing athletic performance and sexual activity, and for inducing sleep.
GHB is probably best known for being abused as a recreational drug and for use in date rape. Colorless and odorless, it made headlines when people slipped it into drinks, knocking out victims who often had no memory of what happened.
As the result of a number of serious adverse events, including death, FDA officials intervened to prohibit marketing of GHB.
Xyrem, manufactured by Orphan Medical Inc., was designated Wednesday as a Schedule III Controlled Substance for medical use, meaning it cannot be sold, distributed, or provided to anyone other than for its prescribed use. Illicit use of Xyrem will be subject to the most restrictive schedule of the Controlled Substances Act, the FDA said in its news release.
Narcolepsy patients suddenly fall asleep from a few seconds to an hour. GHB doesn't treat that symptom. But approximately 20,000 to 50,000 narcolepsy patients also suffer from cataplexy, a muscle-weakness complication that can cause people to collapse without warning.
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JohnyJuice
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Torch said:
Awesome!! i'll be right back, i am going to get some alkaseltzer and go to the doctors to fake a seizure.
Torch
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Not sure how current this is
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ghb/ghb_law.shtml
On Friday Feb 18, 2000, President Clinton signed the 'Hillory J. Farias and Samantha Reid
Date-Rape Drug Prohibition Act of 2000'. According to the text of the Act, the Attorney General
of the United States is ordered to add GHB to the list of schedule I substances within 60 days
of the passage of the act. The Attorney General performed this final step in mid-March.
GHB is a Schedule I substance in the United States. Schedule I substances are defined federally as :
A drug which as a high potential for abuse.
A drug which has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug under medical supervision.
GHB is Schedule I and Schedule III:
In another bizarre twist of US Drug Law, GHB was declared both a Schedule I drug (no medical use, high potential for abuse) and a Schedule III drug (accepted medical use, lower potential for abuse). The law made an exception for a New Drug Application to the FDA by the company Orphan Pharmaceuticals under the generic name of Sodium Oxybate for use in treating certain types of narcolepsy and sleep disorders. See Orphan's Press Release on the scheduling. Cannabis was also given this contradictory scheduling in the mid 1990's when Marinol was made schedule III and approved for sale.
Additionally, gamma butyrlactone has become a List I Chemical federally and is scheduled in some states (california).
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ghb/ghb_law.shtml
On Friday Feb 18, 2000, President Clinton signed the 'Hillory J. Farias and Samantha Reid
Date-Rape Drug Prohibition Act of 2000'. According to the text of the Act, the Attorney General
of the United States is ordered to add GHB to the list of schedule I substances within 60 days
of the passage of the act. The Attorney General performed this final step in mid-March.
GHB is a Schedule I substance in the United States. Schedule I substances are defined federally as :
A drug which as a high potential for abuse.
A drug which has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug under medical supervision.
GHB is Schedule I and Schedule III:
In another bizarre twist of US Drug Law, GHB was declared both a Schedule I drug (no medical use, high potential for abuse) and a Schedule III drug (accepted medical use, lower potential for abuse). The law made an exception for a New Drug Application to the FDA by the company Orphan Pharmaceuticals under the generic name of Sodium Oxybate for use in treating certain types of narcolepsy and sleep disorders. See Orphan's Press Release on the scheduling. Cannabis was also given this contradictory scheduling in the mid 1990's when Marinol was made schedule III and approved for sale.
Additionally, gamma butyrlactone has become a List I Chemical federally and is scheduled in some states (california).
FreakMonster
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Yummy!!! Can't wait to get my hands on some of this stuff.
FreakMonster said:Yummy!!! Can't wait to get my hands on some of this stuff.
Fat chance. The restrictions on this shit are gonna be killer.
This is from a CNN article on CNN.com Click here to see it
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The notorious date-rape drug GHB won government approval Wednesday to treat a rare but dangerous complication of the sleep disorder narcolepsy -- but it will be sold under some of the most severe restrictions ever imposed on a medicine.
The Food and Drug Administration approval carves out one medical use for an otherwise illegal chemical.
Throughout the 1990s, the government had cracked down on illegal GHB use -- abused as a party drug, sex and athletic enhancer and, because it can knock people out, a date-rape drug. Several dozen deaths are blamed on the chemical. But GHB was hard to stop because it was easy for people to mix up with some common chemicals.
Now the maker of the only FDA-approved version, Orphan Medical Inc., will have to balance how to get GHB to the relatively few patients it could help while keeping it from falling into the wrong hands.
"No system, I believe, is foolproof, but there will be very close tabs" kept on every GHB shipment, said Dr. Russell Katz, FDA's neurologic drugs chief.
Narcolepsy is marked by recurring episodes in which patients suddenly fall asleep from a few seconds to an hour. GHB doesn't treat that symptom. However, anywhere from 20,000 to 50,000 narcolepsy patients also suffer from cataplexy, a muscle-weakness complication that can cause people to collapse without warning.
Orphan Medical's version of GHB, to be sold under the brand name Xyrem, marks the first FDA-approved treatment for cataplexy. Studies suggest Xyrem could reduce cataplexy attacks by up to 70 percent.
Originally developed as a surgical anesthetic, GHB was pulled off the market because of side effects: it depresses breathing and can cause coma, even kill.
Then in 1990, some companies began selling it as a dietary supplement, and use as a recreational drug -- under such names as "Georgia homeboy," "cherry meth" and "liquid ecstasy -- took off. Colorless and odorless, it made headlines when people slipped it into drinks, knocking out victims who often had no memory of what happened.
By the mid-90s, the government had declared any GHB use outside of FDA-sanctioned clinical trials illegal. A 2000 law toughened penalties so abusers or distributors could face a prison term. The Drug Enforcement Administration has blamed GHB for at least 58 deaths and 5,700 recorded overdoses since 1990.
But despite all the abuse, scientists were studying reports that by altering the quality of narcoleptics' nighttime sleep, GHB might improve some of the disorder's symptoms, including cataplexy.
Wednesday, the FDA concluded Xyrem, a liquid version of GHB, indeed helps cataplexy.
But patients who want to use it face a host of restrictions.
Every doctor who prescribes Xyrem must enroll on an FDA-monitored registry that also will record the name and medical progress of every patient who takes it.
Orphan Medical will hire one pharmacy to distribute Xyrem, sending it by Fed-Ex to the homes of properly registered patients who have certified they understand how to use it and the penalties for abuse.
The patient must sign for each shipment -- reports of lost or missing drug will immediately trigger an investigation.
Patients or doctors who divert the drug for illegal use can face jail, Katz warned.
Even when patients use it right, there can be side effects, the FDA cautions -- the same breathing problems abusers face, especially if used with alcohol or other central nervous system depressants. Other side effects are rare but include bedwetting, sleepwalking and confusion.
The FDA will monitor the patient registry for reports of side effects, and urged doctors to report any patients' problems by calling 1-877-67-Xyrem.
Orphan Medical said it will begin sales by year's end but did not release a price.
FreakMonster
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BeefyBull said:
That's the shit that pisses me off!!! They act like GHB is so fucking dangerous killing a huge 58 people but thousands of people die from alchohol every year and no one ever raises hell over that.
For those looking for a little more information about GHB:
http://www.ghbinfo.com/
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ghb/ghb.shtml
http://www.ghbinfo.com/
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ghb/ghb.shtml
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Frackal
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LOL why are they wasting all this time worrying about GHB.
Stan O'Zolol
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Cornholio said:
Not true Corn. NaGHB masks easily in fruity drinks and diet cokes, depending on the dosage. It does take quite a bit to knock a person out though. I imagine you would have to spread it across a few drinks if that was your game. Also, KGHB, although much less common, does not possess the same salty taste as NaGHB. I wonder what 'salt' the approved GHB will be made from?
Steroid_Virgin
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I have mixed feelings about GHB.. I went through a whole bottle of verve.. its cool and all.. but it can get addictive. who am I kidding, the shit is dope.. I miss my verve..
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