date rape drug

To the eye they look as innocent as aspirin, but this drug has all the power of a knock-out punch. This is Rohypnol, or roofie. The victims don't even know what happened to them, if anything happened to them. It's got to be terrifying to wake up and not know what you've been doing for the last eight hours or so." Rohypnol, which is illegal in this country, is a sedative said to be ten …

…reports of "date rapes" involving the use of the drug. Both law enforcement and drug counseling services caution that the use of Rohypnol is increasing and that additional quantities of it are being imported across the Mexican border, where it can be obtained by prescription. ERRI drug abuse analysts warn that "Roofies" are just another in a long list of dangerous drugs that are being imported and "pushed" to the impressionable youth of this country.