| All kinds of people, including bodybuilders, doctors, and | | | | resulted with negative effects. People who consume |
| frat boys, know about or have heard about | | | | GHB can go through a big selection of side effects. |
| Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, also known as GHB. It has a | | | | High doses cause the person to become very drowsy, |
| past of being recognized as an excellent way to build | | | | which is why it has been used as a date rape drug. |
| muscle, but also as a date rape drug, and in some | | | | Heavy consumption can possibly result in violent |
| cases has claimed the lives of people. GHB can be a | | | | seizures and perhaps death. Reduced blood pressure |
| very useful drug, but it can also be very dangerous. | | | | levels can take place, which has been known to result |
| The following is more information about where it | | | | in heart attacks as well as strokes. Uncontrollable |
| comes from, what it's used for, and if bodybuilders | | | | diarrhea or urination is another possible side effect due |
| should give it the time of day. | | | | to the heavy relaxation effects that the drug has. |
| GHB, or Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, was first utilized in | | | | In early November of the year 1990, the FDA initiated a |
| Europe for a wide number of medical reasons. It was | | | | total ban on GHB in the United States. Pressure from |
| primarily taken as a pain killer during the time of | | | | the public had much influence due to all the incidences |
| childbirth, used as a sedative for people addicted to | | | | from GHB use on college grounds and areas. Even |
| drugs and alcohol, and was also used as a general | | | | though it was made to assist with increasing muscle |
| anesthetic for all kinds of problems in the emergency | | | | mass and burning body fat, men were slipping it to |
| room. Around 20 years ago you could buy it over the | | | | women in large amounts without them knowing. Date |
| counter in the United States. Most of the stores that | | | | rape statistics had gone way up and a few people |
| specialized in healthy foods said GHB was widely sold | | | | even died from using it. |
| to bodybuilders looking to gain muscle mass while | | | | Instead of finding someway to regulate it since it was |
| burning off fat, also because of the relaxing feeling of | | | | still a useful drug when used properly, the FDA chose |
| comfort felt after using it. | | | | that banning it in the United States was the better |
| As is the trouble with a lot of other kinds of drugs, | | | | decision. The ban made possession of GHB very |
| people started using GHB way too much. Just as the | | | | dangerous considering the heavy legal ramifications; so |
| drug Ephedra was very widely used until users began | | | | most bodybuilders don't even try to use GHB because |
| consuming it in large amounts and being killed by it, | | | | the risk these days is way too high. |
| GHB was soon consumed in large amounts and | | | | |