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An industrial solvent used to clean graffiti is among the most potentially lethal drug of choice for some on the gay clubbing scene.
Another weekend night, Another ambulance surface a night club. But this is not the aftermath of a drunken brawl in binge drinking Britain.
The medics are there for carrying on someone overdosed on an industrial cleaner GBL and it's a scene which has been repeated a dozen times in one night.
Gamma butyrolactone, allow it its full name, Has the exact effect to GHB, the "particular date agreed rape" Drug made illegal in 2003 and which is every bit popular in some gay clubs. They creates a euphoric high or, If a is taken, queasiness and unconsciousness.
"This is vastly more wild than ecstasy, pronounces Dr Sean Cummings, Who runs a non-public gay clinic called Freedom Health in central London.
"I personally know of two deaths this year alone and the numbers using it are much smaller than ecstasy. The sexual penetration into the [correctly clubbing] Mainstream is relatively small at the moment and if it spreads, The number of deaths included with it is going to increase,
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Adam Cooper of Knightlife Medical Services says his firm was called out to 16 G overdoses on one Saturday night a weeks ago, At three gay clubs in london. Four patients needed medical therapy.
"I can understand people taking ecstasy to get high and dance all night but I can't understand why you would go to a club and make yourself fall asleep, tells Mr Cooper, Who adds that he's never diagnosed anyone for an ecstasy overdose.
A staff nurse at an extensive care unit in a central London hospital says he sees about one patient a month who is so seriously ill from G that the paramedics and A have transferred him to his department for artificial respiration.
Recalling the night time he collapsed, banker Sergio, 33, claims: "One minute I was belly dance, The next I woke up in hospital and the nurse said i had been resuscitated. I got such a shock. My friend told me I had collapsed and maintenance staff at the club were reluctant to call an ambulance.
"But another guy was checking my pulse and said it was dropping so my friend called an ambulance himself and I'm forever in his debt that he did. I had taken G before but that night I had drunk alcohol earlier and I think it is precisely what made me overdose. It's an awesome high but never again,
GHB has a long standing medical use as a general anaesthetic or in dealing insomnia. Its use as a date rape drug has been reported across the UK for several years and the recreational use of GHB and GBL has spread beyond the gay scene and the capital.
through 2002, a woman in Bolton, well aged 25, Pulled 18 of her teeth out while hallucinating on GHB acquainted with her boyfriend. many years earlier, Ian Hignett, A 27 yr old from Birkenhead, Died from an overdose acquainted with friends.
now, A zero tolerance campaign has been launched by some gay night clubs in order to persuade customers not to indulge. On landing, People with eye drops are sometimes asked to put a few drops in their eyes, To prove it. But for anyone who is plans to outlaw GBL, A Home Office speaker said.
Dr Cummings says G also facilitates intercourse. It is Class B but is being reviewed by the Advisory Council on any susipicious activity regarding Drugs.
A few years ago there were fears the drug could have the same devastating effect in Britain that it has wreaked in parts of the US and South East Asia, Where addicts suffer from psychosis, Paranoia and social condition.
Although use remains a lesser amount than feared, Drug workers remain concerned it may become more widespread.
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One infrequent user Michael, Who lives london, is marked: "It's the only drug I know that makes you do stuff normally would be against your principles. It's like nothing can affect you when you're on it,
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And he blames crystal for the destruction of two friends. One built a makeshift ramp while you're watching window in his high rise flat and, feeling he could fly, Threw themself to his death.