New Nail Polish Alerts Wearers To Date Rape Drugs

stephendavion writes Checking to see if your drink has been tampered with is about to get a whole lot more discreet. Thanks to the work of four North Carolina State University undergrads, you'll soon be able to find out without reaching for a testing tool. That's because you'll already have five of them on each hand. The team — Ankesh Madan, Stephen Gray, Tasso Von Windheim, and Tyler Confrey-Maloney — has come up with a creative and unobtrusive way to package chemicals that react when exposed to Rohypnol and GHB. They put it in nail polish that they're calling Undercover Colors.

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Re: The world we live in.

[Xiaran]

It is and there have been numerous studies to back this up. The stories about Rohypnol and GHB are all moral panic bollocks. Why bother using complicated, hard to obtain and potentially dangerous drugs when good old fashion vodka will do the trick for a would be rapist. This is a solution for a problem that does not really exist.

Re: The world we live in.

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, you couldn't have asked for a better illustration of moral panic in action. Bravo

P.S., It's "bollocks," not "block."

Re: The world we live in.

[Anonymous Coward]

Again, the plural of anecdote is not data.

Re: The world we live in.

[Anonymous Coward]

She knew a member of the frat since they were little kids

And him being a member of a frat wasn't enough to clue her into him being a probable rapist (or at least a douche that would sell her out)? She must have been a freshman.

Re:The world we live in.

[Zero__Kelvin]

" A victim who learned a valuable lesson about personaly responsibility.

You have PTSD. Seek help. Seriously.

"I don't blame myself for the girl's actions; after all, I didn't drug my own drink, she did."

Yes. You do. And I quote:

Knowing that rapists are out there, and knowing that keeping your drink in hand at and in view at all times is a simple and effective preventative measure, it is irresponsible not to take that simple measure.

Your belief that it is irresponsible of people not to keep their drink in eyesight at all times is irrational, and is a consequence of your PTSD. Mentally healthy people don't believe that, and nothing you can say will convince them of it. Why? Because it is an irrational belief that stems from your experience and the fact that you haven't yet addressed your PTSD issues.