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There's people who haven't heard of GHB? Most people know it as rape date drug or something similar.
I had a look at the other names it's known by but nah, never heard of it.
The media used to refer to it as grievous bodily harm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ZFEhBPS9E
Interesting. I've heard of GHB but didn't know it was one of those. I've only heard of roofies being used. But I don't generally keep up with what's happening in the drug world
This thing has been around for decades.
I've only been around for 1.7, so there's my problem ig
Fair enough. I would gently recommend to stay away from G. It's a dangerous and addictive drug and fairly easy to come by in big cities.
It's a bit dangerous, mainly because of difficulties dosing, but it's not addictive at all.
Please don't promote illicit drug use in this community
Speaking facts is promoting?
You could be promoting it since you don't have a reliable source to back up your claim and could be completely full of shit to justify your own habits - or not. It depends and I don't want to go researching illicit substances
In a post below someone shared an article about it.
But generally I don't speak in a way to add a peer reviewed scientific study below everything I say. Nobody does. Because it would be incredibly stupid and inefficient to do it, especially under some irrelevant comment in an irrelevant thread no one besides us will ever read. Incredibly stupid.
I don't think you're promoting it, but hosting web services in Australia often gets MIB knocking on your door so I get the admin's sketchiness.
It is false so say it's not addictive at all. It is pleasurable and you could form a dependency on it that could be lethal to withdraw from like all GABAergic drugs. I have personally never see that, and because if it's short halflife it would be difficult, but it's not hard to imagine someone getting a bit too into the pleasure.
That said even if someone was taking it every single time they would go drinking and they did that frequently it would still be safer than alcohol.
Still, be honest about drugs. you can fuck your life up with just about anything and nobody should use something under the false notion it's harmless/risk free.
Sure, but then you could say that about almost everything. It would be very hard to imagine someone getting addicted to ghb. I have never heard of that.
I think when talking about drugs we have to be truthful. Especially to kids. Exaggerating and trying to scare with some imaginary addictive properties doesn't work, because when some of them figure out it's all a lie, they will not recognize other harmful patterns of behavior that might truly get them addicted.
Yes, it is.
You are talking out of your fucking arse why not see what actual scientists have to say?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140673607604644
The first author was the former head of the advisory council to the UK. They rank GHB as less habit forming than almost everything else scoring a 1.19 vs alcohol's 1.93 or heroin's 3. Steroids are at 0.8, for context.
I remember it being sold in the 90s as a “designer drug” called “Grievous Bodily Harm”.
Every few years, it is re-marketted as a new designer drug to be fashionable. These Drug dealers are nearly as dishonest as Real Estate Developer and Tech Bros.!
I picked up some G the other week. My dealer described it as a renovator's delight with native AI integration.