Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 376, Issue 8, Pages 1192-1197Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-003-1896-z
Keywords
drug-facilitated sexual assault; date-rape drugs; forensic toxicology; NCI-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
Ask authors/readers for more resources
This paper gives a general overview of the drug-facilitated sexual assault phenomenon. Sexual assault perpetrated on both women and men, while incapacitated by so-called date-rape drugs, recently became the focus of many investigations conducted by law enforcement agencies in the US throughout the 1990s; an alarming increase in reports of this crime as well as in the number of scientific publications on drug-facilitated sexual assault has been observed. The list of drugs reportedly associated with sexual assault is long and among others includes flunitrazepam with other benzodiazepines such as diazepam, temazepam, clonazepam, oxazepam, as well as gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), ketamine, and scopolamine. We discuss the most recent analytical developments in the toxicological investigation of drug-facilitated rape designed to reveal drug presence and that may help successfully prosecute perpetrators.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available