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Topic: Gamma butyrolactone

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Personality:Easily addicted,  Nervous
Currently has on their coffee table:Food & Wine magazine
Dream job(s):Drug dealer,  Janitor
Favorite activity(s):Taking drugs
Favorite food(s):Anything with salt
Interest(s):Chemistry
Favorite great thinker(s):Alfred Nobel
Listens to:Techno
Medical note(s):Taking Valium,  Taking weight loss pills,  Uses laxatives
Worst habit(s):Taking Ecstasy,  Taking Drugs,  Smoking Marijuana
Favorite type of dance(s):Raving
Favorite quote(s):"Reality is a crutch for people who can not deal with drugs." - Lily Tomlin
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
 
 
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection recently amended its regulations to add the drugs gamma-hydroxy butyric acid (GHB) and gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) to the list of controlled substances.
Billie Kirgan,
Machinist

These resists are formulated in gamma butyrolactone (GBL) solvent.
Tony Howell,
Skateboarder

Reclassifies Gamma-Butyrolactone Acid (GHB) as a Schedule I controlled substance rather than a Schedule IV substance.
GBL (gamma butyrolactone), an analog of GHB, is also abused.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Addition of gamma hydroxybutyric acid and ketamine to schedules of controlled substances; gamma butyrolactone as additional list I chemical Subsection (a) adds GHB, its salts, isomers, the salts of its isomers, and any material containing any of these to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the schedule reserved for those substances that are highly subject to abuse and that have no accepted medical use.
As predicted from the metabolism of gamma butyrolactone and 1,4-butanediol to GHB, the symptoms were nearly identical to those reported from GHB withdrawal.
As a rape drug test mostly used three related chemical depressants: GHB (gamma hydroxy butyrate), GBL (gamma butyrolactone), and 1,4 butanediol, sometimes called BD.
David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist

gamma-Butyrolactone (GBL) is a strong mucous membrane irritant, as well as a mild skin irritant.
 
 
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