Annals of emergency medicine
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We describe seven patients presenting with combination substance abuse involving gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB). ⋯ Emergency physicians should be alerted to this agent, its characteristic effects, and its potential for serious sequelae including respiratory arrest and death.