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Article: Date-rape drugs 'can be detected'
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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POLICE in Londonderry today said they could test for date-rape
drugs at medical facilities after it emerged the check was not
available at Altnagelvin Hospital.
The hospital admitted this week that although there was a small
but steady stream of people at their casualty department who may have
been drugged without their knowledge, it was unable to carry out
routine tests for date-rape drugs.
However, police today said that when someone went to hospital for
treatment after rape and asked for police, a forensic doctor would
check for the drugs in the victim's system.
Drug workers have warned there is an increasing number of reported