Word: rohypnol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although overdoses with a similar drug, Rohypnol or "Roofies," are more common, GHB is fast becoming the designer drug of choice among college students, according to health officials...
...government-acknowledged medical use and aren't made by licensed firms. But ketamine and other drugs that are actually medicines are different. Senator Joseph Biden discovered how delicate drug politics can be last year when he designed a bill to control ketamine and the so-called date-rape drug Rohypnol more closely. At the time, rapists' use of the latter to sedate victims had sparked an outcry, but the Rohypnol-controlling part of the legislation died under pharmaceutical-industry pressure. The industry, whose political action committees last year donated $2.1 million to Republican candidates and $714,000 to Democrats, doesn...
...have been reported over the past several months in Texas, Florida and California. Most teenagers seem to take "Liquid X," as it is sometimes called, to get high. But GHB is also known on the street as "Easy Lay," and authorities fear it may be taking the place of Rohypnol, the tranquilizer that made headlines last year as the "date-rape drug...