Criminal Poisoning: Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault

Occurrence of ethanol and other drugs in blood and urine specimens from female victims of alleged sexual assault

“…In this connection, one needs to consider legitimate use of prescription drugs by the victim and voluntary intake of ethanol or other recreational drugs [14,35,36]. In this case series, prescription drugs (see Tables 1 and 2) were mainly anxiolytics, antidepressants and pain-killers (opiates and paracetamol), all of which are widely used in today's society [37].…”

Criminal poisoning of commuters in Bangladesh: Prospective and retrospective study

“…In industrialised nations, this has mostly focused on drug-facilitated sexual assault which is also increasingly reported in the medical literature [6][7][8][9][10][14][15][16][17]. In addition to alcohol and illicit drugs (most commonly cannabis and cocaine) which have most frequently been implicated in drugfacilitated sexual assault [7][8][9][10], fast-acting benzodiazepines and gamma-hydroxybutyrate and its congeners are among the most popular drugs used for this purpose [7,[11][12].…”

Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault

“…Alcohol-related assaults were more likely to occur at parties or at someone else's home. 2,27 Alcohol has a half-life of approximately 4 hours and elimination rates can vary between 10 and 25 mg/dL/hr. 26 In the study by Hurley et al, 10 the average blood alcohol level in suspected DFSA victims was 0.11% (110 mg/dL).…”

“…2 Twenty-six different classes of benzodiazepines have different affinities for the receptor. 2 Twenty-six different classes of benzodiazepines have different affinities for the receptor.…”