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It seems inevitable that the marketing of recreational drugs, especially through the Internet, will keep one step ahead of attempts to control them. An illustrative tale centres on γ-hydroxybutyrate and its precursors (Deborah L Zvosec and colleagues. New England Journal of Medicine2001;344:87–94). Gamma-hydroxybutyrate is a metabolite of the inhibitory neurotransmitter, γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and, to some extent, may be reconverted back to GABA. In the 1980s it was promoted as a muscle builder …