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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Jordan Page

The dark side of GHB: This is what the sex and party drug is doing to the UK's LGBTQ community

July 30, 2021. It’s a day in 42-year-old Jay Smith’s life that he should remember for the rest of his life: it’s the day his sister is getting married - and he’s set to give her away at the altar.

But tears won’t fall from his eyes upon seeing his sibling in her wedding dress for the first time, and he won’t share a dance with her surrounded by their family and friends. Why? Because on the morning of the wedding, Jay was found dead in his flat after an overdose of GHB (referred to as G) – a drug that he was addicted to for around a year.

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