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What are Date Rape Drugs?
Date rape is one of the hardest crimes to approve because the
victim and the offender know each other. To help prevent this crime,
educate yourself by finding out what offenders use to incapacitate
their victims so you can stay clear of them.
Date
rape drugs pertain to any drug or substance that can and is used to
commit
sexual assault on another person. Date rape drugs are usually added to
food
and/or drink and normally have sedative, amnesiac, dissociative, and/or
hypnotic
effects on a person.
Many
date
rape drugs have no color, smell, or taste, and may even be difficult to
detect in
the body system after it’s been administered and the effects
had worn off.
Date
rape
drugs have become a powerful weapon for committing sex crimes. The haze
of
oblivion that often comes with its use can let many offenders get away
with
their crimes without the victims even knowing that they have been
assaulted.
Victims
of date rape drugs are normally rendered helpless to say no to the
sexual act
thereby turning it to a sexual assault.
Types
of Date Rape Drugs
Among
the many date rape drugs, alcohol remains to be the most commonly used
particularly since victims partake of it willingly. In lower doses,
alcohol can
simply lower a person’s inhibition. In greater doses, alcohol
can sedate and
even render a victim unconscious. It can also lead to partial or
complete
amnesia regarding the events that took place during the period of
intoxication.
Nevertheless,
there are three major date rape drugs that have been identified:
- Benzodiazepines
– a sedative and/or hypnotic drug that causes amnesia by
varying degrees. This includes flunitrazepam or Rohypnol a.k.a.
“roofies”. Benzodiazepines usually results in
anterograde amnesia where the victim will not remember what happened
while under the influence of the drug.
Roofies
often come in the form of a pill and easily dissolves in
liquids. Olds pills have no color making it more difficult to detect
although
newer Rohypnol pills turn blue when added to liquid.
The
sedative effects of Benzodiazepines appear around 15-20
minutes after ingestion and the effects last from 4 to 6 hours. There
are
reported instances though when its effects can last up to 12 hours or
more
after ingestion.
It’s
been discovered that scientist can detect traces of the drug
in a person’s urine 5 days after ingestion and in a
person’s hair one month
after taking in a single dose of the drug.
- Gamma-hydroxybutyrate
(GHB) – a drug with effects similar to alcohol. GHB is an
invisible drug that easily dissolves in water, odorless, and when mixed
with beverages even appear tasteless (though many say the drug can make
the drink a tad salty).
GHB
is well known as the club and party drug. Unlike other date
rape drugs however, GHB needs to be taken in larger doses (about 1 to 3
grams)
for it to be effective. This makes GHB easier to be detected than other
drugs.
- Ketamine
– a legal drug used as veterinary sedative or anesthesia. The
effects of ketamine include delirium, hallucinations, cardiac
excitement, confusion, euphoria, mild respiratory depression, amnesia,
and coma among others.
Ketamine
can be taken orally or nasally and takes 10 to 20 minutes
before the effects set in. It can also be taken intravenously to have
more
instantaneous effect. The effect of the drug lasts for about 3 hours
but can be
detected in the body system for up to 48 hours depending on how it was
ingested.
Ketamine
is in white powder form when undiluted and turn water a
little cloudy when dissolved in it.
One
of
the more sensational date rape drugs is Progesterex. Progesterex is a
small sterilization
pill used by veterinarians to sterilize large animals. The drug, however,
is now
widely used not just to rape victims but to sterilize them as well. Many
rapists use Progesterex with Rohypnol. Rohypnol is used to sedate the
victims
while Progesterex makes sure that the victim doesn’t conceive
from the crime so
the perpetrator wouldn’t have to worry about paternity tests
later on.
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