Article: Experts consider UK ban on date-rape drug chemical

Article: Scot faces US jail over ingredient in date rape drug
Scotland on Sunday;  August 26, 2007 ;     687 words ......shipped thousands of litres of GBL (Gamma-Butyrolactone), a component of the date-rape drug GHB, to the US. He is due to...accounts in his name frozen. GBL is legal in the UK but illegal...ingredient of the so-called 'date-rape' drug GHB. The inquiry into...intercepted ...

Article: Man charged with felony after date-rape drug found; Police think it's largest seizure of the banned substance in state.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  April 1, 2000 ;     523 words ......an illegal drug that can be used in date rapes and could cause seizures, comas...32-ounce bottles containing a drug called GBL, which converts in the body to another...believed to be the largest seizure of GBL in the state and one of the first arrests...enacted in August 1999, that bans GBL, ...

Article: GBL: GH releaser or deadly drug?
Joe Weider's Muscle & Fitness;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......heard of a new supplement called GBL (gamma butyrolactone). Or perhaps...a similar product, GHB, as a date-rape drug. Marketed as an aid for sleep...depression, even life extension, GBL sounds like just the thing if...that for the average person, GBL has risks that clearly overpower ...

Article: Date rape drug case man jailed An Aberdeen man at the centre of a 1 million "date rape" chemicals racket has been jailed for nearly six years.
Aberdeen Evening Express;  August 30, 2007 ;     319 words ......chemicals to be used to make the date-rape drug called GHB. Calder was sentenced...GHB - often labelled as the date rape drug - on May 21 this year. He also admitted importing GBL, which can be used to make...was being used to make the date-rape drug and ...

Article: DATE-RAPE DRUG MENACE.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 30, 2007 ;     192 words ...A DATE-RAPE drug made from nail polish remover...sexualassaults, it emerged yesterday. GBL - an industrial solvent - is...omas's Hospital afteroverdosing on GBL. It is legally available as...wholesale switching from GHB to GBL. Were it not for theirlegitimate...

Article: Oregon: Testimony addresses use of date-rape drug
Juvenile Justice Digest;  February 28, 2001 ;     40 words ...The House Judiciary Committee is gathering testimony on a bill that would outlaw the date-rape drug gamma butyrolactone (GBL). The bill, HB 2353, would allow prosecutors to pursue charges of drugging without consent, even if the sexual assault can't be proved.

Article: 4 Charged in Date Rape Drug Death
AP Online;  March 17, 1999 ;     287 words ......Online 03-17-1999 4 Charged in Date Rape Drug Death WOODHAVEN, Mich. (AP...on charges they slipped a ``date-rape drug'' into the soft drink of a...spiked with either GHB or GBL, drugs that can render victims...collapsed in a hallway. GHB and GBL are powerful central ...

Article: GBL: The deadly drug that's still legal
The Scotsman;  April 30, 2009 ;     487 words ......student, experts have warned. GBL is similar to the notorious "date rape" drug GHB, which was made illegal...government has yet to prohibit GBL because of its use as an industrial...Scotsman that eight heavy users of GBL have come forward for help this...people will be experimenting ...

Article: Clubs employ medics to fight new drug craze Health: An industrial solvent known as GBL is taking over from now- illegal GHB, but the risk of overdose is enormous
The Independent on Sunday;  September 5, 2004 ;     462 words ......staff recovery rooms at major venues. The drug - known as GBL - is being blamed for an increase in the numbers of clubbers...have ever sent to hospital have been users of GHB and GBL or who mixed alcohol with those drugs." GBL is effectively a stronger, more concentrated version of...body- building ...

Article: Priest accused of selling date-rape drug.
United Press International;  January 29, 2002 ;     315 words ......manufacturing and distributing GHB, commonly called the date-rape drug. Jeffery Windy, 31, pastor of two small parishes about 50...drowsiness, dizziness and hallucinatory states. GHB is called the date-rape drug because sex abusers use it to render a person unconscious...and Oct. 9. ...

Article: NSW: Man charged over 3,000 litres of date-rape drug import
AAP General News (Australia);  July 30, 2008 ;     185 words ......NSW: Man charged over 3,000 litres of date-rape drug import SYDNEY, July 30 AAP - A 36-year-o...illegal importation of 3,000 litres of the date-rape drug fantasy. Customs officers intercepted a shipment of gammabutyrolactone (GBL), known as fantasy, in Sydney on July...and ...

Article: PU intermediate plagued by misuse as 'date-rape drug'.(News)(attention is being paid to 1,4 butanediol, which is metabolized in the body as the 'date-rape drug')
Plastics News;  June 2, 2003 ;     358 words ......gamma hydroxybutyrate, or GBL, more commonly know as the date-rape drug'' according to Patricia...of the chemical council's GBL/BDO Panel. And that has...Then it apparently became a date-rape drug in its GBL form. Now, anyone apprehended...

Article: COMA IN A BOTTLE; It's the 50p party drug that killed this talented student. It strips paint, is easier to overdose on than heroin ... and, shockingly, is still legal. In this disturbing investigation,we name the men making a fortune selling GBL on the internet; SPECIAL REPORT.(Features)
The Daily Mail (London, England);  May 2, 2009 ;     700+ words ......people up and down the country. But because traces of GBL remain in the body for only up to 12 hours after consumption...specialising in patients with drugs problems, believes GBL is claiming the lives of about six people a year. Scores...after a party. Next to her body, police found a bottle of GBL. ...

Article: FOCUS@HEALTH: Date-rape drug gains notoriety in America
Filipino Reporter;  August 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......States-based Filipino Reporter). DATE-rape drugs will be the focus...sense of well-being). As a date-rape drug, GHB causes the victim...is safe. Its abuse as a date-rape drug has led to countless comas...gamma butylrolactone (GBL) or 1,4 butanediol (BD...solvent) ...