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GHB as a recreational drug.
Well here we have this neat little drug that puts you to sleep. And its been used for 20 or so years to treat insomniacs, narcoleptics and cataleptics (people with excessive daytime sleepiness).
In those populations, even though they have used the drug in large amounts for decades there have been no adverse effects. In fact the LD-50 (lethal dose) for GHB is so high that the Salt content would kill you before the actual GHB did.
Neat eh? So how did it become a recreational drug? after all its designed to put you to sleep or help you sleep right?
Well, if you take less than the sleep producing dose it makes you feel high. The effect is very similar to a clean alcohol feeling. I say clean because GHB metabolizes into water and carbon dioxide within four hours of entering your body. And then its gone.
Alcohol metabolizes into water and acetylaldehyde. Acetylaldehyde (think formaldehyde, embalming fluid) is 20 times more toxic than alcohol and take over an hour to pass every ounce out of your body.
10 ounces of alcohol and you are still processing it 13 hours later.
In fact GHB is so closely akin to the buzz from alcohol that it has been used as an alcohol substitute to take alcoholics off alcohol.
So there you go. You have a drug that makes you feel buzzed or drunk that has no calories, no hang over, and wears off much quicker than regular alcohol and most club drugs.
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