Cosmetics company "2 Love My Lips" have created a new line of lip glosses that detect Ketamine and GHB in alcoholic beverages.Cosmetics company "2 Love My Lips" have created a new line of lip glosses that detect... more
Here are some awfully dangerous drugs which include sleeping pills, sedatives, tranquilizers, and antidepressants that will cause many side effects particularly due to their adverse effect in suppressing central nervous and respiratory system, and they may also slow down bodily function and cause hallucinations. In short, these drugs are extremely dangerous as they may produce unwanted and unpredicted side effects.Here are some awfully dangerous drugs which include sleeping pills, sedatives,... more
It always bothers me how easily men can use the word rape in situations where any other word would be sufficient.
As a woman hearing these words, all I can feel is disgust for the lack of imaginative language. But there’s another side to the story, the side I don’t tell. I don’t like the word rape because every time I hear it, it brings back memories of my own experience.
Two years ago, I was raped.It always bothers me how easily men can use the word rape in situations where any... more
A New York City man is accused of trying to smuggle a date rape drug into the United States by putting the liquid in bottles he claimed contained "holy water."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say laboratory tests recently confirmed that dozens of bottles seized at a western New York border crossing contained Ketamine, a powerful hallucinogenic used as a date rape drug.
Authorities say 50-year-old Warren Maynard of Brooklyn was arrested Oct. 16 near Niagara Falls after he tried to enter the U.S. from Canada, where he said he'd bought some religious items.
Officials say a Customs dog sniffed out the drug while Maynard was being questioned by officers.
The status of his case and whether Maynard has a lawyer couldn't be immediately determined Tuesday.A New York City man is accused of trying to smuggle a date rape drug into the United... more
This will raise some eyebrows. Helen Mirren says she's been the victim of date-rape before, but if a woman says no at the last second, don't go whining your way into court.
CNN.com got a copy of a GQ story that's about to be published, in which Mirren calls date-rape a "tricky area," something best worked out between the parties.
Mirren says if a couple is heavy into sexual activity and the woman says "no" at the last second, technically it's rape, but, "I don't think she can have that man into court under those circumstances. I guess it is one of the subtle parts of the men/women relationship that has to be negotiated and worked out between them."This will raise some eyebrows. Helen Mirren says she's been the victim of date-rape... more
The UK Home Office plans to ban two chemicals which create "date-rape" drug GHB when combined.
Gamma-butyrolactone and 1,4 butanediol, available in cleaning fluids and industrial solvents, turn into GHB when swallowed together. Scientific advisors have suggested these were increasingly becoming "a legal substitute" for GHB and may have been used in sexual attacks.
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs found people who consumed either substance regularly could develop a "dependence", as well as falling unconscious or even being killed "by intoxication". The UK Home Office plans to ban two chemicals which create "date-rape" drug GHB when... more
Welsh actor Rhys Ifans has provoked outrage with comments made in a recorded interview that appear to make light of date rape.
Ifans, 40, who sprang to fame in the film Notting Hill, was asked by the station Q Radio to comment on a track by the band the Gutter Twins. The Welsh star expressed his enthusiasm for the act by saying: "It's kind of like being date raped, which I like."
When pressed further by the presenter on whether date rape was a good thing, Ifans added: "Well yeah, for guys."
Graham Rhodes of the Roofie Foundation, Britain's only helpline for victims of drug-related rape, was enraged by the comments. "If he wants to retract that, it would be nice for the 9,000 people who have been drug raped in the past 12 years. It shows a total lack of understanding and compassion for the issues. I hope everyone boycotts everything he does now."
The interview with Q Radio is part of Ifans's attempt to break into music. He has set up a band, the Peth, with Dafydd Ieuan of Super Furry Animals.
Earlier this year he made a joke about paedophilia at a concert organised to raise money to end child slavery and prostitution: "Why is paedophilia so popular?" he said at the event. "Because kids are so fucking sexy."
A dark sense of humour or a joke taken too far? Do 'celebrities' have a responsibility not to make jokes like this when people are horribly affected by the things they're laughing at?
Welsh actor Rhys Ifans has provoked outrage with comments made in a recorded interview... more
I think her own words are best, so here is her story:
Her email to me starts here:
"You said you would help warn others about what happened to me. It's painful, but this is my story. Thanks for your help.
Why?
So, here in a state I don't want to name, I don't know a soul.. I don't get out and meet many people on average probably because I am disabled, but it's an invisible illness. I look normal, can act normal, feel alot of pain everywhere in my body.. nature of the illness.
I signed up on an Internet dating source in the summer, had not dated anyone yet. I'm cute, so people are always surprised I'm single, I just don't know anyone. Mailbox always full.
New Years came 2008.. didn't want to kiss my cat... again. I sent a mail to a guy close that had been talking to me. I was so excited to have a date, the guy, awesome. Checked him out, all seemed good. In officer program in the military. false comfort.
Suddenly plans get changed. I was lost. He was kind on the phone. We met up in a parking lot, where I eneded up purchasing something at a store for allergies (probably his cologne), and we left in his car. Thankfully I put the receipt in my coat pocket or I would not have found my car. After I was out of the hospital.
The dinner, weird. He was constantly gone, phone, texts, bathroom, something elese. He took about 4 bites of food. I worried, are you ok? He said his friend got in trouble.
Asked if we should scrap plans and go find him? Suddenly it wasn't a problem. We were at a dive but it wasn't his original plan. I just cared for the company and couldn't care less that plans fell.
I had been crushing on him a while... . we kissed and I asked what was wrong, he said nothing. I told him before specifically not to expect sex or anything more than a kiss in our email communications. He seemed fine.
The kiss for new years, is the last i remember and I did get a kiss. And a glass of diet drink, he got it for me. Tasted fine, toast, laugh kiss.. warm.
Soda needed ice, who cares. Just be happy.
Next memory. Shower, too cold. Hurts. So much hurts. Don't rub so hard. Tender. More cold. no covers. cold wet. Am i alone? towel? dark.
Next memory. I woke up alone, was naked. In a hotel. I didn't know what state, town, city, etc? Where was my car? No idea. I called the police and they said it wasn't their responsibility to know where my car was. Thinking i was a bimbo that drank to much I suppose, not drugged, raped, from the damage repeatedly. Left alone. I'm diabetic. Sugar less than 40, nothing to eat/drink. I couldn't hardly walk. I have little memory of that day too. Drug is strong. Lost. No money for a cab. Phone dead.
Hospital. Exam. Hurts. I cry. They document where my throat was holding me down. They stitch me back up, in that private place. I try to escape in my head. Glucose iv. Pills, so many to protect from std's.
Car? where could it be? I needed showers many showers.
As I sat there, hospital scrubs, not my own clothes, the police took all I was wearing and the biological evidence I gathered before I left the motel room. Blood, semen, soda cans and glasses. I don't want him hurting another girl.
I had spent hours looking for my car and trying to figure out details.
When I left the hospital they let me keep my coat, hands cold, in pockets. paper. the answer, my car was in another town completely.
Due to my medical conditions, I was told at the emergency room that street drug could have killed me. I was lucky they said. Why don't I feel lucky?
I'm a mess. I've been on bed rest for 8 days now. I am wearing 3 layers of clothes. So confused. Why? I was so careful."
Thanks for reading her story. I hope it helps someone.I think her own words are best, so here is her story:
Her email to me starts here:... more
