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This is awesome! My niece was taken to the emergency room after a party, she might have been roofied, we don't know. Fortunately no assault took place.
But I do wonder if this will start up a cascade of change like the 'bath salts' problem has caused. I also wonder if the act of giving someone a drink that you know has been drugged would constitute assault, it should, and if more people got charged for that I think you'd see a reduction in rape.
Checking to see if your drink has been tampered with is about to get a whole lot more discreet. Thanks to the work of four North Carolina State University undergrads, you'll soon be able to find out without reaching for a testing tool. That's because you'll already have five of them on each hand. The team — Ankesh Madan, Stephen Gray, Tasso Von Windheim, and Tyler Confrey-Maloney — has come up with a creative and unobtrusive way to package chemicals that react when exposed to Rohypnol and GHB. They put it in nail polish that they're calling Undercover Colors.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/08/25/129258/new-nail-polish-alerts-wearers-to-date-rape-drugs
But I do wonder if this will start up a cascade of change like the 'bath salts' problem has caused. I also wonder if the act of giving someone a drink that you know has been drugged would constitute assault, it should, and if more people got charged for that I think you'd see a reduction in rape.
Checking to see if your drink has been tampered with is about to get a whole lot more discreet. Thanks to the work of four North Carolina State University undergrads, you'll soon be able to find out without reaching for a testing tool. That's because you'll already have five of them on each hand. The team — Ankesh Madan, Stephen Gray, Tasso Von Windheim, and Tyler Confrey-Maloney — has come up with a creative and unobtrusive way to package chemicals that react when exposed to Rohypnol and GHB. They put it in nail polish that they're calling Undercover Colors.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/08/25/129258/new-nail-polish-alerts-wearers-to-date-rape-drugs
