Baclofen experience report - possible GHB analog

Baclofen is a little known GHB analog and has reportedly produced GHB like effects in recreational doses. The precise mechanism of action of baclofen is not fully known and it's marketed at a muscle relaxant. However, baclofen is a direct GABA (B) agonist, just like the recreational (illegal) substance GHB. It caught my interest when baclofen and phenibut was suggested as potential substitutes for GHB.

GHB is not popular in the Malaysian recreational drug use scene. Ironically, Malaysia is also where the clinical trials for legitimate use of GHB was conducted in the form of sodium oxybate (Xyrem) which is essentially GHB renamed. ;) GHB is marketed as an Ecstasy substitute in Melbourne (and other countries) and has become very popular in the recreational drug use scene, leading to a lot of overdose, and fatalities due to its high dose-response curve.

GHB is rather scarce in Malaysia, with most people sticking to safe and known drugs (the usual suspects) and thus I've been searching high and low (no pun intended) for a GHB substitute. I've delved into the grey market "sexual enhancers" market which has GBL or 1,4-Butanediol listed but the toxicity of the other ingredients have dissuaded me from this path (will write up this soon).

I came across baclofen in a pharmacist one day and decided to experiment with this direct GABA (B) agonist. I have not had GHB for a long time and I'm interested in any potential GHB analogs since most of the analogs like GHL and 1,4 has been declared illegal. I took 100 mg of baclofen on my first experiment and did not expect to get much out of it, but Jesus Christ, was I in for a ride...

Substance: Baclofen (potential GHB substitute)
Dosage: 100 mg

I took 100 mg of baclofen on an empty stomach (together with about 8 mg of clonazepam, which is my usual night dose) on Saturday night. I felt the effects at about T+ 0:45 with effects peaking at around the T+ 1:30 mark. I remember thinking "Jesus Christ, this feels a lot like GHB" at that point. This is the notes I jotted down on my Pocket PC:

Extreme nysgymus, vision blurred, euphoria, eyelids can't stop flickering, even when shut/closed

Unusual photo sensitivity/light perception, dark room seems bright, "flash" (long) perceived in reflective material (eg snack wrappers) when sudden change of light eg light switched on suddenly

Visual anomalies (interesting) with light/dark shadow interplay

Thinking a bit off like on nmda anta
Motor coordination EXTREMALLY affected - balancing off, stumbling around, flying blind, haphazard navigation

Drowsiness present like ghb

Photo sensitive

Lag/latency when blinking - long retention of images, often with either v. dark or extremally bright spots. Dark spots black but white spots can be blue yellow green neon glare.

V. relaxed but not like klonopin - baclofen is unusual, muscle relaxant yet makes any muscle use painful easy tasks like holding arm up makes relevant muscle groups sore

This was when I dropped into a heavy sleep - a coma like sleep like GHB. I was totally out for about 4-5 hours. This is extremely deep sleep, with a heavy emphasis on extremely. It was exactly like a high dose of GHB in this sense. I woke up with a strange taste in my mouth and with all my muscles very sore and one motherfucker of a migrane.

I thought I had a seizure (probably a very mild one) and started to document this in my Pocket PC but I can't hold my stylus properly and kept on pressing the wrong characters. I was very confused and my motor coordination was still totally off, I was stumbling in all directions, knocking into walls in an attempt to go to the toilet. I felt some sexual aspects (like GHB) at this point (I had to hold my dick while I was taking a piss, alright :p). I nearly fell asleep while taking a piss. I won't attempt to post up the stuff I wrote at this point since I can't even decode what I wrote! It's all nonsensical - I was definitely unsober.

I woke up a second time about 7 hours later and I was still not sober! I still felt extreme mental confusion and absurd motor coordination and an unstoppable urge to sleep. I fell into a deep sleep again and finally woke up again 6 hours later with minor confusion, uncontrolled motor coordination and one fuck of a headache.

I slept a total of 18+ hours. (!)

I was very impressed with the initial GHB like subjective experience though - I would attempt this experiment again with a lower dose, perhaps 80 mg, to avoid the "GHB coma" from hitting me so fast so that I can enjoy the aspects of GHB euphoria.

Baclofen is stronger than medical literature would have you think...start with low doses. It is extremely similar to GHB and I would suggest it as a viable GHB substitute. Baclofen is a very interesting substance indeed. Baclofen also has structural homology with gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB). It lasted for close to 20 hours in total, which is amazing.