as you know, the home secretary has announced a review of gbl but why do you describe this gbl as you ghb i beg your pardon it used to be an anaesthetic. gbl which are still used as an industrial cleaner, it's a solvent. they have almost identical effects. the trouble is they can be slipped into drinks. and you may not detect that, particularly if the drink has a strong flavour like coca—cola or lucozade. so, you can be drugged, spiked with it very easily. and very often it can lead to unconsciousness. or often it can lead to unconsciousness. 0r semi consciousness. so that you are either completely incapacitated or semi incapacitated. does it leave your system pretty quickly? that depends on the dose. the reason why it's particularly dangerous is because of what's called the very steep dose response curve, which meansjust a steep dose response curve, which means just a fraction increase steep dose response curve, which meansjust a fraction increase in dose can have a huge effect on the body and the brain. so you know, one or two mg more can be the difference between life and death and

when you use the term g, you're talking about both gbh and gbl in effect., they are different. yes. this was a recreational drug of the 90s which we are now seeing recreational drug of the 90s which we are now seeing being used in a far more sinister way, in rapes and in some murder cases as well and yet it is still a class sea drug. so what needs to happen? well, certainly there needs to be a thorough review of the evidence. the evidence has emerged gradually over the course of 20 years. the work i have been doing over the last three yea rs, have been doing over the last three years, and in particular in the last year, has identified an escalation, an escalation both in terms of the sheer amount of usage, but also the weaponisation of this drug. and also the addiction to the stroke. there needs to be a public information campaign. the government has to act on that now. because most members of the public know nothing about it. most people don't know how to protect themselves, they don't know what to do if they do become addicted. if you go cold turkey, the