Ketamine If you think you’ve drugged and Ketamine (KEET-uh-meen), also known as: Black raped: Hole, Bump, Cat Valium, Green, Jet, K, K-Hole, Date Rape Kit Kat, Psychedelic Heroin, Purple, Special K, and . Get medical care right away. Call 911 or have a Super Acid. trusted friend take you to a hospital emergency room. Don’t urinate, douche, bathe, brush your What does it look like? teeth, wash your hands, change clothes, or eat or Drugs Ketamine comes as a liquid and a white powder. drink before you go. These things may give evi- dence of the rape. The hospital will use a “rape kit” to collect evidence. Call the police from the hospital. Tell the police exactly what you remember. Be honest about all your activities. Remember, nothing you did What are its effects? — including drinking alcohol or doing drugs — can justify rape. Ketamine is very fast-acting. You might be aware of what is happening to you, but unable to move. Ask the hospital to take a urine (pee) sample It also causes memory problems. Later, you might . that can be used to test for date rape drugs. The not be able to remember what happened while you drugs leave your system quickly. Rohypnol stays were drugged. Ketamine can cause these problems: in the body for several hours, and can be de- . Distorted perceptions of sight and sound tected in the urine up to 72 hours after taking it. Lost sense of time and identity GHB leaves the body in 12 hours. Don’t urinate . Out of body experiences before going to the hospital. Dream-like feeling . Don’t pick up or clean up where you think the . Feeling out of control assault might have occurred. There could be . Impaired motor function evidence left behind — such as on a drinking . Problems breathing glass or bed sheets. Convulsions . Get counseling and treatment. Feelings of . Vomiting shame, guilt, fear, and shock are normal. A . Memory problems counselor can help you work through these . Numbness emotions and begin the healing process. Call- ing a crisis center or a hotline is a good place Loss of coordination . to start. One national hotline is the National Sponsored By: . Aggressive or violent behavior Sexual Assault Hotline at 800-656-HOPE. RWU Health and Wellness Educators . Depression “Helping Others Help Themselves” Information found on: CSD Rm 211 #401-254-3491 . High blood pressure http://www.womenshealth.gov . Slurred speech What is a Date Rape Drug? GHB Rohypnol GHB, which is short for gamma hydroxybutyric A date rape drugs are drugs that are sometimes Rohypnol is the trade name for flunitrazepam acid. GHB is also known as: Bedtime Scoop, used to assist a sexual assault. Sexual assault is (FLOO-neye-TRAZ-uh-pam) and is also com- Cherry Meth, Easy Lay, Great Hormones, Griev- any type of sexual activity that a person does not monly known as “Roofies” ous Bodily Harm (GBH), Liquid Ecstasy, Somato- agree to. It can include touching that is not okay; max, and Vita-G, to name a few. putting something into the vagina; sexual inter- What does it look like? course; rape; and attempted rape. These drugs Rohypnol comes as a pill that dissolves in liquids. What does it look like? are powerful and dangerous. They can be slipped Some are small, round, and white. Newer pills are GHB has a few forms: a liquid with no odor or into your drink when you are not looking. The oval and green-gray in color. When slipped into a color, white powder, and pill. It might give your drugs often have no color, smell, or taste, so you drink, a dye in these new pills makes clear liquids drink a slightly salty taste. Mixing it with a sweet can’t tell if you are being drugged. The drugs turn bright blue and dark drinks turn cloudy. But drink, such as fruit juice, can mask the salty taste. can make you become weak and confused — or this color change may be hard to see in a dark even pass out — so that you are unable to refuse drink or room. The pills may be ground up into a What are its effects? sex or defend yourself. If you are drugged, you powder. GHB takes effect in about 15 minutes and can last might not remember what happened while you 3 or 4 hours, A very small amount can have a big were drugged. Date rape drugs are used on both What are its effects? effect. Most GHB is made by people in home or females and males. The effects of Rohypnol can be felt within 30 street “labs.” So, you don’t know what’s in it or how minutes of being drugged and can last for several it will affect you. GHB can cause these problems: hours. If you are drugged, you might look and act like someone who is drunk. Rohypnol can cause . Relaxation these problems: . Drowsiness . Muscle relaxation or loss of muscle control . Dizziness . Difficulty with motor movements . Nausea . Drunk feeling . Problems seeing . Problems talking . Loss of consciousness (black out) . Nausea . Seizures . Can’t remember what happened while drugged . Can’t remember what happened while drugged . Loss of consciousness (black out) . Problems breathing Although there are more, the most common date . Confusion . Tremors rape drugs are Rohypnol, GHB, and Ketamine. Problems seeing Sweating These drugs do not look the same and can have . different effects on a person’s body. The impor- . Dizziness . Vomiting tant thing is to recognize situations in which you . Sleepiness . Slow heart rate could be drugged and to prevent any form of . Lower blood pressure . Dream-like feeling sexual assault to occur. Stomach problems . Coma . Death . Death.