The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: The Detection of Date Rape Drugs by Capillary Electrochromatography Author(s): Bruce McCord Document No.: 210417 Date Received: June 2005 Award Number: 2002-MU-MU-K002 This report has not been published by the U.S. Department of Justice. To provide better customer service, NCJRS has made this Federally- funded grant final report available electronically in addition to traditional paper copies. Opinions or points of view expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. The Detection of Date Rape Drugs by Capillary Electrochromatography #2002-MUMU-K002 Bruce McCord, PI, Ohio University Current address: Department of Chemistry, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
[email protected] Portions of this report were taken from the doctoral dissertations of Sandra Bishop and Ahmed Alnajjar, Ohio University, 2004 1. Abstract Drug facilitated sexual assault is becoming an increasing problem throughout the United States. Victims of this crime often do not report to authorities and when they do, time may have passed to the point where detection of the drug in their system becomes difficult. In addition, many of the drugs used are difficult to detect using standard immunoassay techniques. As a result, more advanced methods such as gas chromatography with nitrogen phosphorus detection must be used, In recent years, a number of forensic laboratories have begun to use capillary electrophoresis (CE) as an alternative to GC/NPD screening for this purpose.