Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault, ‘Ladettes’ and Alcohol

Drug-facilitated sexual assault.

Drug and alcohol facilitated sexual assault - Briefing - Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault (ACSSA)

I n recent years, the problem of drug and alcohol facilitated sexual assault has been receiving increased attention in Australia from sexual assault service providers, police, and law reform bodies. However, media interest in this issue has largely been restricted to the specific problem of “drink spiking”, and generally understood to involve the covert addition of an illicit substance to a dri...

Challenges of Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault.

This article provides the reader with an understanding of the numerous challenges of drug-facilitated sexual assaults (DFSA). The challenges are categorized as follows: the drugs, reporting the crime, evidence collection, and laboratory analysis of specimens. The challenges associated with the drugs used to commit DFSA emphasizes the pharmacological effects of strong central nervous system depr...

Toxicological Investigations in Drug-facilitated Sexual Assault

We present a general overview of the drug-facilitated sexual assault phenomenon in the United States sexual abuse of both women and men, while under the influence of so-called “date-rape” drugs, has been the focus of many investigations. Throughout the 1990s, an alarming increase in anecdotal reports of this crime as well as in the number of scientific publications on drug-facilitated sexual as...

Criminal poisoning: drug-facilitated sexual assault.

Drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) is a complex and ever-prevalent problem presenting to emergency departments. Emergency personnel should consider DFSA in patients who are amnestic to the specific details of the event following a reported sexual assault. The presence of ethanol or a positive routine drug screen in a sexual assault victim does not exclude the potential of a surreptitious dr...