Miscellaneous Sedative-Hypnotics

Although not a chemical family, these orphaned chemicals are so similar in action that we felt they warranted their own category here.

Children:

• GHB-related (Includes analogs, metabolites, and metabolic precursors of GBL & GHB)
  • 1,4-butanediol
    Metabolic precursor to ghb (and industrial precursor to plastic)
  • 4-methyl-GHB (4-Hydroxyvalerate)
    Sodium 4-Hydroxyvalerate
  • GABA (g-aminobutyric acid)
    Metabolite of ghb and neurotransmitter.
  • GBL (g-butyrolactone)
    Chemical and metabolic precursor to GHB
  • GHB (g-hydroxybutyrate)
    Sedative closely related in structure to GABA. Now a schedule I substance in the USA.
  • GHB-aldehyde (g-hydroxybutyraldehyde)
    metabolic precursor to ghb
• Chloral hydrate
• Ethanol
• Ethchlorvynol
• Glutethimide
• Meprobamate
• Methaqualone (3,4-dihydro-2-methyl-4-oxo-3-o-tolylquinazoline)
  Commonly called Quaalude
• Methyprylon
• Trichloroethanol
  Active metabolite of chloral hydrate.