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gamma-Hydroxyvaleric acid (GHV) is a psychoactive drug and designer drug which is structurally and pharmacologically related to both gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). It is sometimes seen on the black market as a legal alternative to GHB but with lower potency and higher toxicity which has tended to limit its recreational abuse.