This is Part 4 of a BuzzFeed News investigation.
Gay men are being drugged without their knowledge using GHB put into lubricant in order to rape and sexually assault them, BuzzFeed News and Channel 4’s Dispatches can reveal.
In a documentary to be broadcast on Sunday night, Stephen Morris, who runs the only specialist unit in the Prison and Probation Service for offenders who commit crimes amid chemsex situations, warns: “One of the most recent developments is that GHB can be administered within lubricant.”
The criminal technique involves drugging victims by injecting the mixture anally, causing the chemical to be absorbed more quickly into the bloodstream, therefore triggering a more immediate or heightened effect.
Morris’s warning comes in a BuzzFeed News–Dispatches documentary called Sex, Drugs and Murder, which reveals how GHB is being weaponized by rapists and murderers, and maps the abuse, addiction, and deaths it has caused among gay men.
One victim, who responded to a survey conducted for the documentary, said he had been unknowingly overdosed on the drug through lubricant and later was sent photographs of the two men raping him. His account was one of dozens of survey respondents’ who also reported being drugged with GHB through lubricant. Read more via Buzzfeed