Is Rohypnol the cause of drug rape?
NO – So called ‘drug rape’ is a media label that has been in response to attacks on women and girls that have happened in the UK over the last ten years in incidences where drugs have been given to the women (unwittingly) in a social setting e.g. a dance club, by a man – who is known/unknown to the women. The drug/s have been usually ‘delivered’ through drink – alcoholic/non-alcoholic. Drug assisted rape has been happening since time began. Alcohol has been used for many years, to get women and girls drunk in order to make the sexual assault easier for the perpetrator. The forced misuse of valium and other prescribed drugs is regularly used in the rape of women and girls in their own homes. Some current safety strategies ignore youth culture i.e. that some young women may be taking leisure drugs themselves and that they might take drinks from people they don’t know. Whatever, women are not responsible for rape of any kind.
