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Rohypnol use to assist in sexual assault situations is undoubtedly serious and appalling. However, calling Rohypnol the “date-rape drug” is a misnomer. Rohypnol is a street drug, and is a drug of choice for many people. Although its use is perhaps not as widespread as Ecstasy, Rohypnol can (and should) be considered a recreational drug like Ecstasy or cocaine Rohypnol is used as a depressant, often to combat a high from an upper such as Ecstasy, cocaine, or speed. Additionally, of course, Rohypnol has been used in scores of date-rape incidents...
...arguing that some of the Harvard students recently treated medically were in fact given Rohypnol without their knowledge, nor am I arguing that the very use of Rohypnol on campus might occur in order to facilitate sexual assaults. These facts alone are sufficiently frightening and serious to warrant greater attention called to the matter, and we should applaud the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response and the Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment (SASH) tutors for quickly disseminating the information about these recent events to our community. As students, we must all pay greater attention to our surroundings and know that...
...spade a spade. The existence of Rohypnol on campus does not necessarily indicate that Rohypnol is being used by one person against another to induce unconsciousness, and, more importantly, a person in possession of Rohypnol is not necessarily intending to use the drug on another person before an assault. Watch the six o’clock news on any given day, and you might hear of a man pulled over on a highway and found with Rohypnol. Inevitably, the mention of Rohypnol is followed by the utterance, “the date-rape drug...
...mail, which was first sent by the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response to Sexual Assault (OSAPR) and Sexual Harassment (SASH) tutors, said the Office knows of two students who sought medical treatment after becoming sick at parties and received toxicology test results indicating the presence of Rohypnol or a related drug in their blood streams...
Because of the blood stream’s short retention of such drugs, it is difficult to compile accurate statistics on the number of cases, according to Marine. The e-mail said over 5,000 cases of Rohypnol-related sexual assault have been reported...