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Monday, March 15, 2010

What Are Club Drugs?

Club drugs are a pharmacologically composite category of psychoactive compounds which are likely to be abused by teens and immature adults at a nightclub, bar, rave, or trance place. Few examples of club drugs are Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), Rohypnol, and ketamine.

Raves and trance events are usually night-long dances, generally held in warehouses. Most of them who attend raves and trances will not use club drugs, but those who use drugs may be interested primarily in their low cost and the thrilling highs which are said to intensify the rave or trance experience.

Confusion regarding the sources, chemicals, and possible contaminants which are used to produce many club drugs make it highly difficult to detect toxicity and related medical consequences.
  • Coma and seizures can develop after the use of GHB. Combined use with other drugs like alcohol can cause nausea and breathing problems. GHB and couple of its precursors, gamma butyrolactone (GBL) and butanediol (BD), can cause poisonings, overdoses, date rapes, and deaths.
  • Rohypnol may be dangerous when combined with alcohol or other CNS depressants.
  • Ketamine overdoses, can result in defective motor function, high blood pressure, and possibly lethal respiratory problems.

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