Drug use hospitalizes three College students
Three Dartmouth students were treated at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center near the end of Spring term for drug overdoses involving the illegal substance gammahydroxybutrate, more commonly known as GHB. According to Charley Bradley, director of the nursing department, the three male students were rushed to DHMC and were later sent to Dick's House. She said two of the students were unresponsive to "painful stimuli" when in the emergency room, meaning that they were unconscious enough that they did not respond to pinches or pin pricks. Bradley reported that the students received intravenous hydration, and their conditions were carefully monitored. She explained that there is usually a three-hour window of time from the moment when someone loses consciousness from GHB until they wake up. "The hope is that they're going to sleep it off," she said of severe cases of GHB users.