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<br /> Feuat &o-Agricultural services Inc. 4 BOBJ2B-9760 i$1/31/97 a 2:19 PM ~ Z/16 <br /> Regardless of their alarmist tone, the authors confirm that "there have <br /> not <br /> been any reported deaths" and that "if product use is discontinued, f II <br /> recovery with no long-term side effects is universal." They conclude that <br /> "the prognosis for people who experience GHB poisoning is quite good" <br /> The degree to which the pleasant state of GHB euphoria may be <br /> psychologically addicting may not be fully appreciated. Anybody with <br /> known <br /> attraction or addiction to tranquilizers or alcohol should pay special heed <br /> to this possibility. In the few cases of GHB abuse that we have <br /> investigated, there were pre-existing use/abuse patterns with alcohol <br /> and/or <br /> tranquilizers. Ironically, it was GHB's lack of toxicity that led to <br /> increased frequency of use (numerous times per day) that characterized <br /> what <br /> can only be called classic cases of psychological addiction. Without the <br /> dehydration and CNS irritation of alcohol, or the side effects of <br /> tranquilizers, there was no incentive to moderate or curtail GHB use. <br /> Fortunately, few people seem to have such overwhelming attraction to the <br /> GHB <br /> state. Even Chin and Kreutzer minimize GHB's abuse potential by stating, <br /> "No <br /> investigator [has] reported any long-term adverse effects, addictive or <br /> dependent qualities associated with discontinued usage of the drug." <br /> Why Was GHB Banned? <br /> It seems likely, then, that at least some of the motives behind the 1990 <br /> FDA <br /> ban of GHB were other than those of public safety. Such a ban constitutes <br /> the only means of Federal control of a substance neither scheduled by the <br /> DEA nor approved by the FDA as a drug. In the absence of a genuine <br /> public-health concern, such control might have been motivated by a desire <br /> to <br /> protect the pharmaceutical industry (with which the FDA is closely <br /> intertwined) from competition from a safer, more effective and less <br /> expensive alternative to sleeping pills. Is it a coincidence that the FDA <br /> has also banned L-tryptophan, another nutrient that functions as a safe <br /> and <br /> <br />