{"id":2806,"date":"2009-07-19T17:05:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T16:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2009-07-19T17:05:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T16:05:50","slug":"new-test-detects-%e2%80%98date-rape-drug-rohypnol-in-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/new-test-detects-%e2%80%98date-rape-drug-rohypnol-in-drinks\/","title":{"rendered":"New Test Detects \u2018Date-Rape&#8217;  Drug Rohypnol in drinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span>A British firm has developed a new test that can detect the presence of the \u2018date-rape drug Rohypnol in drinks. Dipitin, developed by SureScreen\u00a0 Diagnostics contains three testing strips and sells for $7.22. The company says the test is more than 99 percent accurate. The test strip utilizes immunoassay\u00a0 technology, which incorporates antibodies 1 known to react to the drugs ingredients into a membrane on a testing stick. If the drug is present, the stick turns red.Also, the strip does not work against gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), another type of date-rape\u2019 drug.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span>The test strip is effective on all types of drinks, including coffee, tea, soft drinks, and alcohol. \u201cWe have spent a lot of time finding the right antibodies that could cope with high levels of alcohol and the acids in fizzy drinks and fruit juices,\u201d said Jim Campbell, a forensic scientist with SureScreen Diagnostics. However, the test may not work on drinks with extremely high alcohol levels, such as shots of distilled spirits.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span>Source:\u00a0\u00a0 Join Together Online<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British firm has developed a new test that can detect the presence of the \u2018date-rape drug Rohypnol in drinks. Dipitin, developed by SureScreen\u00a0 Diagnostics contains three testing strips and sells for $7.22. The company says the test is more than 99 percent accurate. The test strip utilizes immunoassay\u00a0 technology, which incorporates antibodies 1 known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}