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Article: THE DATE RAPIST'S SCARY NEW WEAPON.(GHB laced drinks used by rapists)(includes related articles on avoiding date rape)
- Article from:
- Cosmopolitan
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
- Author:
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GHB is clear and nearly tasteless--and one dose in your drink can leave you utterly defenseless against sexual assault. Rapists know about it. So should you.
When she woke up, Julie Simmons(*) couldn't figure out how she'd made it back to her house in Los Angeles. She looked down. She was naked, but she didn't recall getting undressed. All she remembered was having dinner in her date's apartment and then falling asleep on his couch. When she called him, he told her that she'd had too much to drink the night before and he had driven her home. That struck her as odd--she knew she'd only had a couple of beers--but she believed him. What choice did she have?
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Article: LITTLE-KNOWN DRUG, GHB, KILLING TEENS, ...
The Virginian Pilot;
July 26, 2001 ;
621 words
... ... emergency room immediately.'' GHB was made illegal last year ... issued an advisory declaring GHB unsafe except under FDA-approved ... Trinka Porrata, a retired Los Angeles Police Department detective ... more than 200 have died from GHB. She bases the total on government ...
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