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Beware false profits…
Over the years there have been many companies selling products that are so called drink detector kits. A new one has just come to light operating out of East Anglia concentrating on distributing its products throughout the Ipswich area. However please be very careful when buying this product as it only tests drinks for Rohypnol and Ketamine. It does not test for either GHB or GBL.
As frequent visitors to this web site know Cosmopolitan Magazine, with the support of The Roofie Foundation, recently launched a campaign to get GBL banned. If we didn’t consider it a threat we wouldn’t have contemplated this action. In our opinion, over the last three to four years, GHB, (currently a class c drug) is probably the most common drug used in the UK to commit drug facilitated sexual abuse (Drug Rape) and the use of GBL is increasing. This is due to a number of factors, one being that since the manufacturers of Rohypnol stopped producing the 2mg tablet, incidents of its use appear to have decreased. This is not to say misuse of this drug has stopped - but a product that claims to prevent drink spiking by identifying only two of the three main substances cannot assure a persons safety. Its like going out in the rain with an umberella that is missing a third of its cover.
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Cosmopolitan launches petition to ban date-rape drug GBL
~ Dannii Minogue, Ulrika Jonsson and Ricky Hatton amongst celebrities to pledge their support ~
13th October 2008 – Cosmopolitan was shocked to discover that it is still legal to buy GBL (Gamma-Butyrolactone), a chemical now being used to enable drug-rape attacks, in the UK. This is despite hundreds of women a year thought to be subject to drug-facilitated rapes and sexual abuse and the US banning the drug in 2000.
Cosmopolitan wants the government to make banning the substance a top priority and has launched a petition on www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/daterapepetition which it will present to the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith.
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NEWS UPDATE - FEBRUARY 2008
Drinking danger - The Press - York - Click here to view
Spiked drink ordeal of Miss York - The Press - York - Click here to view
Cabbie to face drug rape charges - BBC - click
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NEWS UPDATE - NOVEMBER 2007Drink spike cases 'soar" - BBC (video clip) - Click here to view
Date rape drug find in victim for first time - Mirror.co.uk - Click here to view
Date rape drug detected for first time - Metro - London - Click here to view
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Welcome to the new Roofie Foundation website
Regular visitors will notice some new and updated features and a lot of vital new information and links. Please feel free to come in and have a look around. This information is free and is aimed to help everyone further the knowledge of drink-spiking and DFSA, but especially to provide support, help and advice to its victims.
The message board system has also been fully revised and renewed. Due to the large amount of obscene and objectionable spam we kept receiving our web masters have been forced to create even more anti-spam features. Unfortunately these involve everyone having to re-register and confirm this registration via an e-mail within 48 hours. We apologise for any inconvenience but hopefully this will prevent the spammers from infiltrating and polluting this special place of the internet.
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