It had been several years since professor Joseph Palamar had seen that unmistakable “caveman face,” the telltale sign of an imminent overdose of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, or GHB. Standing among ...

The Bay County Sheriff's Office says a recent search of a home turned up a huge quantity of a drug commonly used to incapacitate people, along with meth and marijuana. The BCSO Special Investigations ...

DECATUR - Trinka Porrata witnessed the evolution of drug abuse. After serving 25 years on the Los Angeles Police Department, she's now consulting addicts, ranging from bodybuilders to the elderly. She ...

ON THE STREET THEY CALL IT Grievous Bodily Harm. That ominous nickname may be lousy shorthand for gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), but it's a tragically accurate description of the nation's hot new party ...

On episode 11 of Conversation With The Big Guy, former WWE Superstar Ryback talked about a number of topics including thinking he needed to take steroids to be a successful professional wrestler when ...

GHB seems to "constantly keep reinventing itself" and attract new groups of users, said Dr. Alex Stalcup, an addiction specialist in Concord, Calif., who first noticed in the late 1980s that habitual ...

GHB overdoses surged in the United States during the 1990s. In 1995, the Drug Abuse Warning Network recorded 145 emergency department visits for GHB-related illness in a single year. By 2000, this ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook As the number of students who fall victim to the date-rape drug gamma hydroxybutyrate rises ...

Kurt Romondt, a chemical engineer who works for pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co., has been arrested and charged with making γ-hydroxybutyric acid, a party drug known as GHB, in his New Jersey home.

A Brooklyn man charged with selling drugs from his luxury apartment allegedly has a substance abuse problem himself that goes back almost a decade, his attorney said. Sze Yan, 37, was indicted ...

STUDIO CITY (CBSLA.com) — A drug suspected of playing a role in the death of a woman at a Venice Beach party over the weekend is turning up more and more in the Southland. Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, ...

When I first moved to San Francisco, one of my roommates sold a little coke and meth to help him make some extra cash while working his way through college. By that time, I had already made it through ...