I haven't even heard of this drug
From the Courier-Mail:
A MAN has described how he walked into an inner-city Adelaide apartment early yesterday to see two of his friends unconscious after taking an overdose of the potentially deadly designer drug Fantasy....
Four people - police say it was three men and one woman, all in their 20s - overdosed on the drug, which is also known as GHB.
The incident happened in an apartment in the eight-storey luxury Parkland Tower complex, at the corner of Greenhill and Glen Osmond roads, Parkside.
Ten paramedics, called to the scene at 5.30am, worked to stabilise the two most seriously affected victims as their shocked friends looked on....
The drug, also known as Liquid E, Grievous Bodily Harm and G, speeds up the body's metabolism and creates a sense of euphoria, loss of inhibitions and can act as an aphrodisiac.
But it can also cause cardiac problems and muscle meltdown as well as suppressing breathing....
Det-Insp Giles said users had to be aware of bad drug batches.
"You don't know what you're receiving is (safe) from one batch to another," he said.
"The strength of the drug may vary and, as I have indicated on a number of occasions, there's all sorts of contaminants that can be involved with illegal drugs."...
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