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Rohypnol

 

            Rohypnol is not legally avaliable in the United States Even for medical purposes, but it is approved in most other parts of the world. It is mainly precribed for short-term insomnia. Rohypnol is a tranquilizer like Valium but it is 10 times stronger.
             The short term effects of Rohypnol are amneisa, muscle relaxation, impaired judgement, and impaired motor skills. It occurs 20 to 30 minutes after it is taken and it lasts for about 8 hours. High school students say they use Rohypnol as a cheap drunk and also as a cure for an alcohol hangover. It is typically used along with alcohol to enhance the drunkeness feeling by college students. It is also used along with marajunia, cocaine, and herion. During the last five years there has been reports of Rohypnol abuse among elementary children as young as 8-10 years old.
             Rohypnol is sold in it original bubble packing as to send a sense of legality and security in its use.
            


Essays Related to Rohypnol

1. Date Rape Drugs: Rohypnol

... hard to detect. It can also be found in a liquid form, which is rare, but can make it even harder to detect. Effects of Rohypnol usually occur within 20-30 minutes. The effects include drowsiness, dizziness, disorientation, lack of coordination, slurred speech, confusion, nausea, and gastrointestinal disturbances; ... doses, it causes respiratory depression. Chronic use can result in physical dependence and the appearance of withdrawal syndrome when the drug is discontinued. Rohypnol is used mostly as an enhanced drug, which means that it is taken to enhance the effects of another drug. ...

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2. Club Drugs

... and have birthed a new wave of drugs that have been claiming the life of partiers. These drugs are known as club drugs, they include Ketamine, Rohypnol and GHB. Ketamine, known to ravers as Special K is a tranquilizer originally designed for veterinary as an anesthetic for small animals going into surgery. (Chamberlain ... distributing serotonin to your brain. Coma and death are also possible short and long-term effects. Another drug commonly found on the club scene is Rohypnol. Rohypnol is commonly known as the date rape drug, but is also known as roofies. Chemically, it is in the same ...

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3. Rape Drugs

... United States, is an odorless, tasteless, white tablet resembling aspirin. It dissolves right into a liquid making almost impossible to detect. Though small in size, Rohypnol packs enough power to cause memory loss and unconsciousness, rendering you helpless. It is usually felt within 20- 30 minutes. The strongest effects occur within 1 ... This is one of the ways society learned of this drug. Emergency rooms had become suspicious of these seizures, and tested their blood, finding Rohypnol. Reports of abuse on many college campuses include stories of women waking up naked in unfamiliar su...

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4. Acquaintance Rape

... States, is an odorless, tasteless, white tablet resembling aspirin. It dissolves right into a liquid making almost impossible to detect. Though small in size, Rohypnol packs enough power to cause memory loss and unconsciousness, rendering you helpless. It is usually felt within 20- 30 minutes. The strongest effects occur within ... is one of the ways society learned of this drug. Emergency rooms had become suspicious of these seizures, and tested their blood, finding Rohypnol. Reports of abuse on many college campuses include stories of women waking up naked in unfamiliar surroundings w...

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5. Date Rape

... inhibitions. Although there are many sedating substances linked with date rape, my research will focus on the two main drugs associated with this topic, GHB and Rohypnol. In recent years, GHB (Gamma Hydroxybutyrate) has become a popular recreational drug found mostly at raves and night clubs. For this reason, young people ... It is also similar to GHB in the fact that it has no odour or taste. Frequently, it is sold at raves and night clubs. Rohypnol's effects begin within three minutes after ingestion, peak within two hours and persist for up to eight hours. It induces a reduction in a...

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6. Club Drugs

... all of the drugs that are prevalent in the clubs, concerts, "raves" and all night parties. The most prevalent "club drugs" are GHB (gammahydroxybutyrate or gammahydroxybutric acid), ecstacy, ketamine, rohypnol, in addition to cocaine, marijuana and hallucinagens such as LSD, mushrooms, poppers and 2C-B. 2C-B is considered both a psychedelic and an entactogen. "Entactogen" is a term used by psychiatrists ... home boy, liquid ecstacy, liquid x, somotomax, and scoop. Slang for ecstacy include E, X, XTC, Adam and Eve. Slang terms for Ketamine include K, Special K, Ket, Vitamin K, Kit Kat. ...

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7. Date rape drug

... violence against women will increase, and society will not have a way to prevent it. The "date rape" drug is the common name for Rohypnol, generically called flunitrazepam. Rohypnol is manufactured by Hoffman-La Roche and prescribed as a sleeping pill in countries outside of the United States. It is used as a short-term ... potent. It is used also as an illicit drug, often in combination with other drugs, such as heroin, cocaine, and alcohol. (www.4woman.gov) Rohypnol is a low-cost drug, sold at less than $5.00 per tablet. Rohypol tablets are white, scored on one side, with the word "ROCH...

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8. Newpaper report

... and in some people can bring out sexually aggressive behaviour. But recently a new drug has been used in clubs and at parties. This drug is called ROHYPNOL which is better known to most people as roofies' or the forget pill' and they are usually prescribed to people with sleeping difficulties. However ... that when mixed with alcohol the effects can be devastating and in some cases can lead to death. In its tablet form, rohypnol is white, with one side scarred with roche' and the other has a 1 or a 2 encircled on it depending on the dosage of the tablet. When it ... make people, especia...

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9. Drugs And Their Abuses

... of hours and that long-term health, memory, and psychological problems are a definite risk. An increasing problem in today's society is the use of club drugs, these drugs include Ecstasy, Rohypnol, GHB, and Ketamine just to name a few. Most of these drugs can be found at Raves or over night parties. The reasons people are brought into using these drugs may ... of recreational traffic, smugglers use the same types of vessels, such as go-fast boats, as those used by the local population. CHEMICALLY RELATED DRUGS FLUNITRAZEPAM (ROHYPNOL) Flunitrazepam, which is marketed under the brand nam...

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