Beware false profits…
Over the years there have been many companies selling products that are so called drink detector kits. A new one has just come to light operating out of East Anglia concentrating on distributing its products throughout the Ipswich area. However please be very careful when buying this product as it only tests drinks for Rohypnol and Ketamine.
It does not test for either GHB or GBL.
As frequent visitors to this web site know Cosmopolitan Magazine, with the support of The Roofie Foundation, recently launched a campaign to get GBL banned. If we didn’t consider it a threat we wouldn’t have contemplated this action. In our opinion, over the last three to four years, GHB, (currently a class c drug) is probably the most common drug used in the UK to commit drug facilitated sexual abuse (Drug Rape) and the use of GBL is increasing. This is due to a number of factors, one being that since the manufacturers of Rohypnol stopped producing the 2mg tablet, incidents of its use appear to have decreased. This is not to say misuse of this drug has stopped - but a product that claims to prevent drink spiking by identifying only two of the three main substances cannot assure a persons safety. Its like going out in the rain with an umbrella that is missing a third of its cover.
Also the content of their web site worries us as it contains many inconsistencies and misleading statements. Firstly we would like to point out that drug rape is not on the increase. The overall figures as reported to our web-site and help-line has stabilised over the last two to three years to approximately 600-700 new victims each year. As we frequently say this is 600-700 too many, however to claim that numbers are increasing is scare mongering.
A lot of the drug related and statistical information on this site has been lifted from the Bath Student Union web site that we allowed use of our information and statistics free of charge. This was back in 2004 and contained our published statistics up to Dec 31st 2004. This item has been pilfered and re-used on this web site, with the consequence that all the information and statistics are five years out of date.
The description of Rohypnol has been taken from a Canadian web site (www.camh.net ).This information differs to the product that was available in the UK where Rohypnol was reformulated and reintroduced around 1999 to incorporate a blue dye. This tablet was oval, coloured green with grey speckles – prior to that it came in a diamond-shaped, purple tablet.
As we say on our own web site front-page, if you are a commercial organisation that intends using our information to sell products or to make any commercial gain, please make a small donation and an acknowledgment of where the information comes from. Please remember the Roofie Foundation is unfunded and run by volunteers and it has taken us a deal of time and effort to gather these facts. The very least someone could do is to ask!
Finally everyone at Roofie.com would like to wish you all a very Happy and Safe New Year, with a hope that we can all work together to succesfully fight DFSA.
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