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4-Hydroxy Butyrate, Gamma Hydrate, Gamma Hydroxybutyrate Sodium, Gamma Hydroxybutyric Acid, Gamma-OH, GHB, Sodium Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate, Sodium Oxybate, Sodium Oxybutyrate.
CAUTION: See separate listings for Gamma Butyrolactone (GBL) and Butanediol (BD). |
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| Gamma hydroxybutyrate; 4-hydroxybutyric acid; Sodium 4-hydroxybutyrate. |
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Orally, gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) is used for reducing weight, enhancing muscle growth, as an aphrodisiac, as an hypnotic, for management of opiate withdrawal and alcohol dependence and withdrawal, and for posthypoxic cerebral edema. It is also used for improving pain, fatigue, and the alpha sleep anomaly in patients with fibromyalgia. GHB is also used orally as a sedative alternative to the dietary supplement L-tryptophan.
As an orphan drug, GHB has been approved by the FDA for treatment of narcolepsy (improving nighttime sleep, and the auxiliary symptoms of cataplexy, sleep paralysis, hypnagogic hallucinations, and automatic behavior).
Intravenously, GHB has been used as part of an anesthetic regimen, and to reduce intracranial pressure associated with trauma.
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