Date Rape Drug Detectors

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Date Rape Drug Detectors

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What's In Your Drink? The Straw That May Detect Date Rape Drugs

For three high schoolers, hearing about the risk of "date rape drugs" was the last straw...that led them to designing the first straw to detect common "date rape drugs." Victoria Roca, Susana Cappello and Carolina Baigorri, who attend Gulliver Preparatory School in Miami, designed a straw that includes two chemical test strips that turn navy blue if they come into contact with some substances frequently used for "drug-facilitated sexual assault." In other words, if your date offers you a drink, put the straw in the drink. If it turns blue, things may not be cool. Here's an Inside Edition report:

The current version of their straw can detect three substances that seem to be frequently…

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