ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE

WHAT IT IS

• Used in the short term statement for insomnia
• Premedical in surgical procedures
• Used for inducing anaesthesia

EFFECTS

• Sedation
• Muscle relaxer
• Reduce anxiety
• Prevention of convulsion
• 10 times stronger than valium

AFTER EFFECTS

• Extremely low blood pressure
• Difficult in breathing
• Coma or even death
• Death- if mixed with alcohol, other drugs, or over dosed
• Depression

HOW LONG ARE THE EFFECTS

• They appear 15-20 minutes after consuming
• They last up to 6 hours
• Some effects have been found to last 12 or more hrs.

THE NAME

• "Date-rape drug" mainly a "club drug"
• Roofies, ruffles, R2, roofenol, wolfies

THE DRUG

• Not approved for medical use
• Not legal in the US.
• Legal in 60 other countries
• Used for treatment of insomnia

IN THE US

• The use in the US has increased by .2 percent since 2009
• It has been stable from 1999 to 2010

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

• Available as a white tablet with no taste
• Also as a caplet that is light green with a blue core
• It dissolves clear when mixed with color
• Dissolved blue in clear liquids

TAKE IT IN

• Snorted
• Pill
• Dissolved in drinks and food
• Crushed and mixed with drugs

SOURCE

• http://www.drugs.com/illicit/rohypnol.html