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Does sodium oxybate age you since it's compared to as using heroin?
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No: and heroin itself doesn't "age" people either. Sodium oxybate (aka GHB- gamma hydroxybutyrate) is a sedative, but doesn't really have specific organ toxicity. While alcohol and methamphetamine themselves will make people sick and appear older, neither opiates nor sedatives do that. The complications of use - overdose, impurities, infectious complications - are what cause the 'aging."
Answered 7/21/2014
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