Abstract
The criminal use of drugs to render a victim susceptible to nonconsensual acts (known as drug-facilitated crime) is not a new phenomenon. Drugs used for this purpose are often rapidly acting central nervous system depressants that may additionally possess amnestic (impairment of memory) and/or immobilizing properties. Drug development in the last 50 years has greatly expanded the pharmaceuticals that have been used for drug-facilitated crimes. This chapter will focus on drugs implicated in drug-facilitated sexual assault that can present analytical challenges: γ-hydroxybutyric acid and its analogs, ketamine, methylenedioxymethamphetamine, flunitrazepam, and the nonbenzodiazepine sedative-hypnotics.
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