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Alcohol and Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault

What is Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault?

Drug-facilitated sexual assault occurs when drugs are used by an assailant to lower a victim’s resistance to the assault. After such an assault, a victim may often be woozy, disoriented, and uncertain of the events s/he has experienced. Alcohol and other drugs (including those called “Date Rape Drugs”) are used in drug-facilitated sexual assault.

What are “Date Rape Drugs”?

Rohypnol, GHB, and Ketamine, and alcohol are examples of illegal drugs whose effects include memory loss, blackouts, visual disturbances, dizziness, and general confusion. They are known as the "date rape drugs" although they can be used to facilitate a sexual assault whether the situation is a date or not. Assailants place these odorless, tasteless and colorless drugs in their victims' drinks in order to incapacitate them so they will not be able to resist the assault. Many victims wake up with no memory of the attack or events leading up to it.

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