Daeo, I gotta agree with you on everything except 'there is no such thing as the overnight addict'. Crack is instant. I was addicted to crack and I can tell everyone here and now that GHB, even in the hands of an idiot, does not have the teeth that crack does. Anyway, to the point...
The tale of the near death experience from GHB is interesting. I find it difficult to reconcile the two weeks of assisted respiration with the known rate of GHB breakdown in the body. Makes me wonder what else was involved. For example, did the initial attending paramedics accurately pinpoint the cause of respiratory distress? If not, they could easily have administered any number of medications that would complicate the problem. The dose is also a question here. As the dose of GHB increases, the 'state of unarousbility' deepens, and SHORTENS, to about sixty to ninety minutes in a case of one gentleman who ingested 75 GRAMS at one sitting and LIVED. No brain damage whatsoever. I understand there was assisted respiration, but that story is actually in conflict in that regard. However, in her testimony at the hearing to shcedule the drug the lead medical adversary was forced to admit under oath that in over 20 years of professional medical experience she had not witnessed a SINGLE GHB DEATH. Even the term GHB POISONING is a misnomer. Anyway, I would bet that in the story posted above, the REAL threat to the gentleman's life was ignorance. Perhaps he would be kind enough to post the details?