No official support or endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education is intended or should be inferred. Internet sites have cropped up that show drugs on the tip of a woman's tongue, detail how to make the drugs at home or suggest dosage levels. GHB, gamma hydroxybutrate, is linked to sexual assaults. This is the Internet drug,'' says Jim Hall of the Miami Coalition for a Safe and Drug-Free Community. There is no peer review of this information.
Scientists worry that the drugs give users the wrong impression.
They don't wake up feeling like they've been hit with a sledgehammer,'' says Alan Leshner, NIDA's director. But using advanced scanning techniques in human test subjects who have taken club drugs, scientists have found alarming damage to the brain's serotonin pathway. Serotonin is thought to play a key role in mood and behavior. Forwarded by the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention.