1,4-butanediol

GHB-alcohol; 1,4-butylene glycol; tetramethylene glycol; g-hydroxybutanol, C₄H₁₀O₂ (mol. wt. 90.12)

Used industrially; Indirectly metabolized into GHB

Documents:

• 1,4-butanediol abstracts
• 1,4-Butanediol Toxicity
• MSDS for 1,4-butanediol
  Material safety data sheet.
• NTP Repository Information for 1,4-butanediol

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Contacts and URLs:

• Cognitive Enhancement Research Institute (homepage, more info)
  CERI has lots of information regarding nootropics (smart drugs) and GHB-type drugs
  • The Emergence of GHB Alternatives
    Interesting article on metabolic precursors to GHB, written after the FDA ban but before the federal scheduling (related items...)
• Erowid (homepage, more info)
  "Documenting the Complex Relationship between Humans and Psychoactives"
  • GHB Vault (related items...)
• GHB FAQs page (homepage, more info)
  Information and FAQs on GHB.

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Images:

• 1,4-Butanediol 2D Structure

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Trip Reports:

• 1,4-Butanediol Lullaby: Okay, so it's not really a trip
  Substances: 1,4-butanediol
• An overdose of heavy psych: A little bit too much of the good stuff
  Substances: 1,4-butanediol, Nitrous oxide, 2C-T-7, Marijuana
• 1,4-Butanediol Overdose: Whoops
  Substances: 1,4-butanediol
• Flying High with 1,4-BD: Anxiolytic use
  Substances: 1,4-butanediol
• Way too much acid: unknown dosage
  Substances: 1,4-butanediol, LSD
• A Combo to Remember: a strange eroticism
  Substances: MDE, 1,4-butanediol
• Pedro and Adam at a rave: Shamanic Healing, rave-style
  Substances: 1,4-butanediol, MDMA, Marijuana, Trichocereus
• Partially Intentional Overdose: Joe learns a lesson
  Substances: 1,4-butanediol
• A meeting with Pedro: Some felonious cactophagy^TM
  Substances: 1,4-butanediol, Trichocereus
• Blah: Moclobemide dulls the trip?
  Substances: Moclobemide, 1,4-butanediol, LSD, 5-MeO-DMT, Psilocybe cubensis

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