Common or street names: Circles, Date Rape Drug, Forget Pill, Forget-Me Pill, La Rocha, Lunch Money, Mexican Valium, Mind Eraser, Pingus, R2, Reynolds, Rib, Roach, Roach 2, Roaches, Roachies, Roapies, Rochas Dos, Roofies, Rope, Rophies, Row-Shay, Ruffies, Trip-and-Fall, Wolfies...
Focuses on the dangers of the street drug known as gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB). Number of GHB overdoses in the San Francisco Bay Area in California; Source and structure of GHB; Mechanism of action; Therapeutic uses.SeymourRichardB.EBSCO_AspBrown University Psychopharmacology Update...
but it has been increasingly been sold in a powder/crystalline form known as “Molly”[44]. One of the challenges with studying the prevalence of MDMA use is that street preparations sold as MDMA vary widely in purity and commonly contain adulterants or may even be another drug altogether. ...
It grew popular in the early ’90s in North America among the club scene, and regardless of many overdoses, the drug “G” was approved by the FDA in 2002 to treat narcolepsy under the name of “Xyrem.” GHB is a powerful nervous system depressant and psychoactive drug and has been sai...
The street name of the drug has changed many times since, to names such as ''liquid ecstasy'' and ''liquid E''. Over 200 people overdosed on GHB in Sydney in a two-month period in 1997, and GHB has caused significant problems for venues and dance party promoters. This paper examines...
Discusses how GHB Marketing Communications shares its name with GHB, an illegal drug also known as liquid ecstasy. How the company received numerous e-mails and phone calls from consumers wanting to buy the drug; Effect it has had on their business; How the firm specializes in publicity for ...