The KU Public Safety Office is investigating a possible overdose of GHB — often referred to as the “date rape” drug — that may have occurred last Thursday evening at GSP-Corbin Hall.

Around 6:30 p.m., a KU Public Safety officer arrived at GSP-Corbin in response to a report of a female KU student having a seizure, according to a KU Public Safety Office report.

When he arrived, he saw a group of bystanders gathered around a 19-year-old female KU student lying face down and unresponsive in front of GSP-Corbin.

He saw another 19-year-old woman, who was incoherent, sitting on a bench next to the first woman, according to the report.

The officer saw that one of the women had vomited on the sidewalk. A witness told the officer it was the incoherent female who had vomited.

At the scene, one witness told the officer that the two women had used “all kinds of drugs in the past,” according to the report.

Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical arrived at the scene and transported both women to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for treatment of a drug overdose, according to the report.

Once the women left the scene, the officer spoke with Kimberly Shears, Rochester, N.Y. graduate student and assistant complex director for GSP-Corbin.

She told the officer that an unidentified student observed the two females doing drugs in one of their rooms. Shears later told the officer that the drug was GHB.

A plastic baggie and a blue plastic cup with clear liquid in it were taken from one of the women’s rooms, according to the report.

Right now, the substance is being tested to determine what it is, said Capt. Schuyler Bailey, KU Public Safety Office.

It’s believed that both women were responsible for their condition, Bailey said.

Neither of them have been arrested for possession of a controlled substance, Bailey said.

The incoherent woman was released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital later that day. The other woman was released the next day, said Belinda Rehmer, a spokeswoman for Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

It is against student housing policy to comment on a particular situation, according to Ken Stoner, director of student housing. No one has been evicted from GSP-Corbin in the last month, he said.

A meeting is usually scheduled within a 24-hour period for residents who get caught with a controlled substance, Stoner said.

He said students caught with drugs can face expulsion depending on several things, including recommendations from medical staff, family arrangements and circumstances that the department knows about, but that may not be generally known.

The status of the residents in student housing is dealt with on an individual basis, Stoner said.