Experience and expertise of the Roofie Foundation include the following:
The establishment of the time-line procedure in enabling a drug rape victim to trace their time/memory loss, and to provide valuable investigative pointers.
The establishment and management of a telephone help-line
The development of telephone counselling techniques for victims of drug related rape and sexual abuse.
The establishment in the eyes of both members of the public and professional organisations of the Roofie Foundation as leading experts in the area of drug related sexual abuse.
The provision of a one-stop-shop emergency telephone service to victims of drug related sexual abuse.
Pressure on the Government led by The Roofie Foundation in conjunction with various members of the media led to the Government applying the advice of the United Nations Commission on Narcotics that suggested making the possession of Rohypnol a criminal offence.
Pressure from the media and the Roofie Foundation led to Hoffman La Roche, the manufacturers of Rohypnol, putting a blue dye into their product. However we at the Foundation consider this a knee jerk, ill thought out move. Especially as the blue dye cannot be seen in a cola based drink, in red wine, or if put into a bottle made of coloured glass, or even a canned drink.
Pressure on the Government led by The Roofie Foundation in conjunction with various members of the media led to the Government adding the drug GHB to the list of classified substances and making its possession a criminal offence
Pressure on the Government led by The Roofie Foundation in conjunction with various members of the media led to the Government helped focus the mind of the Home Secretary on the issue and mention drug rape in his "Protecting the Public" paper of 2000, a paper that eventually led to the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
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