Scandal - Former Olympic Skater drugged with GHB

[nEone]

From Fox Sports news -

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - Former Olympic ice dancer Pasha Grishuk was drugged with GHB, a common date rape drug, during a business meeting at a ritzy Orange County hotel, a sheriff's spokesman said Tuesday.

A 1998 portrait of Pasha Grishuk. (Tom Hauck / Getty Images)

Grishuk, who won Olympic gold medals for Russia in ice dancing in 1994 and 1998, was attending a business meeting at the St. Regis Monarch Beach on April 12 when she began to feel ill and numb, sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said.

While eating dinner, she spotted a partially dissolved pill in the bottom of her drink. Investigators later found another dissolved pill in the bottom of a drink she ordered in the hotel's lounge.

Amormino says toxicology tests that came back Tuesday were positive for GHB, but it wasn't immediately clear how the pills got in Grishuk's drinks or who put them there.

"How somebody was able to do that, I honestly don't know, but it appears that somebody, for whatever reason, attempted to drug her," he said.

GHB, or gamma hydroxy butyrate, can cause breathing problems, loss of consciousness, seizures, drowsiness, coma and death.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration labels GHB a "predatory drug" that can be mixed with alcohol to reduce resistance from a victim before a sexual assault. It is also popular with teenagers at raves and is sometimes used by bodybuilders for its anabolic effects, the DEA said.

The 36-year-old Grishuk is a Ukrainian native who now lives in Los Angeles.

An e-mail to Grishuk was not immediately returned. A spokeswoman at the St. Regis did not immediately return a call for comment.

SWIM has never seen GHB in pill form.

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[Senor Gribson]

Since when does GHB come in pill form? "partially dissolved pill"... it sounds like some reporter who watches too much TV heard a rumour and ran with it.

[rxbandit]

that would have to be a fucking huge pill... most pills usually weigh somewhere between 250-500 mg's, GHB is extremely fluffy as well. You would need an absolutely massive pill as 2 or more grams would likely be necessary...

alot of athletes take GHB for athletic reasons.

[MotherSuperior]

SWIM used to in SWIMS body building days. Reason, helps sleep and is supposed to increase production of NATRUAL Growth Hormone.

SWIM had to reconsider SWIMS position when SWIM fell asleep cooking and woke up naked in the street with firemen in the house and neighbours outside.

SWIM still cries when landlord made SWIM get rid of A LOT of this, in the bin... but SWIM likes shelter.

SWIM used to 'melt it' into spoon, remembers 2ml spoon. 1 spoon was dose, 2 spoons got SWIM buzzing 3 SWIM knocked SWIM RIGHT out... nothing since Seconal has knocked SWIM out like that. POTENT. But yeah GHB is pretty maliuble with a little heat and can be moulded in pretty much any shape.

*edit* Request to explain how GHB drug got maluable, well SWIMS close friend used to make this stuff in SWIMS friends kitchen, SWIM used to get a few lbs at a time. The shape was literally of whatever just whatever the GHB had cooled at solidified in. For dosing, SWIM used to measure SWIMS GHB SWIM used to shave the main block and put the scrapings in a small crucible and heat up. The GHB would liquify pretty quickly, SWIM then used to poor 'wax' like soloution into 2mul plastic pharmacy spoons(2ml) and weight to solidify. When set SWIM used to just knock out GHB that had solidified in spoon and pop in mouth(urghhh SWIM recalls salty taste). SWIM found only problem is that GHB is VERY VERY easy to OD on(see above) getting high and need abou 4ml's and getting unconcious required about 6-7mls. SWIM never wanted to deliberatly get unconcious and burn house down but didnt factor in previous doses correctly when taking extra doses. SWIM also used to obtain GHB from local 'book shops' when it was not illegal here, this was in liquid form, SWIM hears of the liquid form often but believes it's the 'pure' from disolved in a soloution. It certainly was not very strong.

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may want to edit "knocked ME out." also how does it melt???