Article: Club drugs implicated in date-rapes to be outlawed

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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