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Article: Club drugs implicated in date-rapes to be outlawed
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 8, 2008
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Two freely available chemicals which can be used as date-rape
drugs are to be banned.
The substances are widely sold as cleaning fluids and industrial
solvents, but also have the effect of sedating a victim if they are
absorbed into the bloodstream.
Ministers are also preparing to outlaw 26 anabolic steroids amid
fears that growing numbers of teenage boys are using them for body
building.
Gamma-butyrolactone, known as GBL and used as a superglue
remover, and 1,4 butanediol (1,4-BD), known as "One Comma Four" or
"One Four Bee", used in the manufacture of some plastics, have
soared in popularity as club drugs. They can be bought legally on
the internet. Their effects are identical to ...
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