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Article: GHB and narcolepsy.(Sleep Medicine)
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- FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine
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- June 22, 2003
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Soap, G, Easy Lay, Liquid Ecstasy, Grievous Bodily Harm, and Georgia Home Boy are its names on the street where it is used as an aphrodisiac or for a quick high at parties. Alternative health care advocates consider it a safe alternative to anabolic steroids. After falling out of favor as a general anesthetic, it has found other uses in medical settings such as enhancing dilation of the cervix during labor. Orphan Medical, Inc.--the only company approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to manufacture it--sells it under the trade name Xyrem and generic name, sodium oxybate. Its chemical name is gamma-hydroxybutyrate or GHB.
In the 1980s in America, GHB ...