Breaking: GHB should be reclassified as a class B drug, the gov's drugs advisers have said. A long time coming. I've spent 5 yrs investigating this awful drug. It formed my documentary for @C4Dispatches + a multi-part series for @BuzzFeedNews. Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/sex-drug-ghb-abuse-overdose-death
After conducting the biggest ever survey into GHB use I then uncovered how it's being sold on Facebook: https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/gbl-sex-drug-sold-facebook?ref=hpsplash
I then told the story of one man's fight to discover the truth about how his husband died: whether GHB was used as a murder weapon, or a suicide weapon. And how the police still have a lot to learn, 5 years after Stephen Port used it to kill his victims: https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/husband-dead-ghb-overdose?ref=hpsplash
More alarming, how rapists are mixing GHB with lubricant to sedate their victims without their knowledge: https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/rapists-are-mixing-the-drug-ghb-with-lubricant
Most of all, my work was inspired by one family who lost one of their triplets to GHB. The devastating story of how he died and what it did to them is told here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/this-is-what-its-like-when-your-son-dies-from-the-chemsex