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Europe:
Leading
British
Date
Rape
Drug
is
Alcohol,
Study
Finds
1/13/06
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/418/daterape.shtml
Alcohol, not illicit drugs,
poses the greatest date rape risk, according to a
study whose results were published this week in the New Scientist.
The study analyzed blood and urine samples from more than a thousand date
rape victims in the United Kingdom who were examined soon after the alleged
assaults occurred. Only 2% of the samples contained sedatives, the
study found.
"Everyone thinks that Rohypnol
is a problem," said Michael Scott-Ham of the UK's Forensic Science Service
in London. "But alcohol is by far the biggest problem."
Alcohol leaves the system
within 12 hours of ingestion, so Scott-Ham and colleague Fiona Burton then
focused on the 391 victims who had been examined within that period.
Of that sample, the researchers found that nearly one-third (32%) of victims
had consumed enough alcohol to either pass out or suffer memory loss, while
another 24% had consumed enough alcohol to be legally drunk.
The full study will be published
in the Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine later this year.
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Issue #418
-- 1/13/06
Feature:
Federal
Meth
Precursor
Sting
Targeting
South
Asian
Convenience
Stores
Draws
Protests,
ACLU
Intervention
|
Feature:
Cannabis
Causing
Schizophrenia
in
British
Marijuana
Policy
|
Feature:
Alito
Hearings
Yield
Inconclusive
but
Mostly
Bad
Forecasts
for
Drug
War
Issues
|
Feature:
In
the
Wake
of
Booker,
Some
Small
Relief
for
a
Small
Fraction
of
Federal
Crack
Cocaine
Offenders
|
Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Sentencing:
Federal
Appeals
Court
Upholds
Mandatory
55-Year
Sentence
for
Man
Who
Sold
Marijuana
While
Armed
|
Sentencing:
New
Jersey
Legislature
Passes
Bill
to
End
Mandatory
Driver
License
Suspensions
for
Drug
Offenders
|
Marijuana:
Bill
to
Recriminalize
Marijuana
in
Alaska
Introduced
and
Moving
|
Europe:
Leading
British
Date
Rape
Drug
is
Alcohol,
Study
Finds
|
Europe:
Albanian
Hemp
Farmers
Freed
as
Judge
Rules
It's
Not
Marijuana
|
Latin
America:
US
Seeking
Talks
with
Bolivia's
Morales
on
Coca,
Trade
|
Web
Scan:
NORML
Animation,
Budapest
Drug
Policy
Dialogue
|
Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
|
Weekly:
The
Reformer's
Calendar
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