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A recent scientific breakthrough could be a huge help to victims of drug-facilitated sexual assault.
Scientists from the British Loughborough University and Spain’s University of Cordoba have shown that a simple saliva test could be used to detect the date rape drug GHB, as well as various types of alcohol, in a patient’s system.
To conduct their study, published in the Journal of Breath Research, the researchers “spiked” healthy saliva samples with methanol, ethanol, ethylene glycol, 1,3-propanediol and GHB. Then they successfully used techniques called thermal desorption, gas chromatography and differential mobility spectrometry to isolate and detect the potentially harmful substances.
Using that process, the researchers hope to eventually develop a GHB test that’s as quick and easy as spitting in a cup. According to the Engineer, researcher Paul Thomas intends for the test to be “as simple as taking temperature with a thermometer that detects when patients are more than just drunk.”
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Detecting the date rape drug GHB
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