GHB Powder

• Body impact: Slows brain activity, producing relaxation, euphoria, or lower inhibitions at low doses.

• Danger of overdose: The difference between a dose that causes a high and a dose that causes an overdose is extremely small.

• Severe symptoms: Can lead to sudden blackouts, vomiting, profound unconsciousness, seizures, coma, slowed breathing, and death.

• Risks with alcohol: Mixing GHB powder or liquid with alcohol multiplies the danger and can rapidly be fatal.

• How it is taken: The powder is mixed into a drink. Because it dissolves easily and is virtually colorless and odorless, it has been illicitly slipped into drinks without a person’s knowledge. 

• Regulation: GHB is an illegal, highly controlled substance with very limited medical uses (such as prescription sodium oxybate for specific sleep disorders)

Popularity of GHB Powder

GHB has become popular on the party scene. Recreational users report feeling euphoric and generally exhibit increased sociability. Small amounts of GHB may make the user feel relaxed. A little more can lead to dizziness and general disorientation. More still can result in nausea, vomiting, and muscle spasms. GHB overdose can result in memory loss, a deep sleep, a clinically comatose state, or death.

GHB is known to be used as a ‘date rape drug’, often added to a victim’s drink without their knowing. There is a strong sexual component associated with the drug’s action, which is related to it being used as a ‘date rape’ drug.

Overdose Side effects

Undesired effects from overdose include

• loss of body control – effects similar to alcohol which can last for several hours
• feeling sick and being sick
• numb muscle and disorientation
• seizures and collapsed
• psycosis and severe agitation
• tachycardia
• delerium
• audio and visual hallucinations
• paranoia

Is GHB Different from GBL?

• GHB can be easily manufactured from GBL which is typically sold in plastic bottles, sometimes labelled but often unmarked.
• GHB and GBL is most commonly taken orally in liquid form; the powder is not commonly snorted, but dissolved in fluid.
• Swallowed: small capful provides an ‘average’ dose. It can take up to an hour for the effects to be fully felt.
• GBL is converted to GHB in the body, appears in the same liquid form and produces equivalent effects to GHB.