Whos Samantha Reid?
Samantha Reid is a teenager who died in 1999 after consuming a soft drink that had been adulterated with GHB. I have not found any details on her medical status or other drugs that may have shown up in tests, so I cannot say whether her death was due to mixing GHB with alcohol, to taking a huge quantity, equivalent to dozens of normal doses, or to some other cause. While her death is a severe indictment of the foul creatures who drug others without their consent, I cannot see it as an indictment of GHB itself. Thousands of administrations in controlled human studies have never borne out the dire warnings of uncontrollability and unpredictability that are published by GHB’s detractors. There is a theoretical possibility that GHB can be deadly in extremely large quantities, but so are Aspirin, Tylenol , and even vitamin pills. Aside from pushing for anti-GHB laws, Samantha’s family has campaigned to educate partygoers to take steps to ensure they aren’t drugged. I’ve no quarrel with that
