'Liquid ecstasy', the deadly choice of sex beasts.BRITAIN'S courts have dealt with a string of cases where rapists have drugged their victims with GHB GHB abbr. gamma-hydroxybutyrate GHB 1 Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, γ-hydroxy-butyrate See GABA 2 Glycosylated hemoglobin, see there GHb Glycosylated hemoglobin, see there . But users also take the drug, known as "liquid ecstasy Noun 1. liquid ecstasy - street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate easy lay, Georgia home boy, grievous bodily harm, max, goop, soap, scoop gamma hydroxybutyrate, GHB - a club drug available in liquid or powder form is taken orally (frequently combined with ", to get high, help them sleep, combat depression or even lose weight. Regular users have been known to become addicted. Gamma hydroxybutyrate became widely known on the rave scene in the 1990s. One 25-year-old woman claimed that she pulled out 18 of her own teeth with pliers pliers, n a tool of pincer design with jaws of varying shapes; used for holding, bending, stretching, contouring, and cutting. pliers, contouring, n after hallucinating hal·lu·ci·nate v. hal·lu·ci·nat·ed, hal·lu·ci·nat·ing, hal·lu·ci·nates v.intr. To undergo hallucination. v.tr. To cause to have hallucinations. while under the influence of drug. GHB is a man-made drug, first created in the lab in 1874. It was widely used for years by doctors as a sleeping aid and anaesthetic an·aes·thet·ic adv. & n. Variant of anesthetic. anaesthetic or US anesthetic Noun a substance that causes anaesthesia Adjective causing anaesthesia . It can also knock out victims so totallly that they have no memory of what is done to them. GHB can cause seizures and comas and can kill. It is especially dangerous when mixed with alcohol. GHB has been illegal in the UK since 2003. It is a class C drug, and people caught in possession of it without a prescription can be jailed. |
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