Well I grew up in a very hard part of the midwest and the stuff was around and easy to get back then, it was not used as date rape drug in my neck of the woods. The kids would get high with it, but you had to watch how much you took or would find yourself passed out cold. There was many different types of drugs around back then, including crack which was not the drug of choice back then and you very little about it back then.
I didn't realize people took it as a drug voluntarily. That's scary, but I guess not as scary, as having it put in their drink by someone else.