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That's exactly it though, lots of people "experience" being roofied, and then are tested and it turns out they were not. Our "common sense" judgments on situat

by asdasf 13y ago

That's exactly it though, lots of people "experience" being roofied, and then are tested and it turns out they were not. Our "common sense" judgments on situations like this are actually incredibly unreliable. >Uncommon is pretty broad, if something as severe as being drugged happens to one person out of every 200 each night, it is "common" in my mind. But evidence suggests it is no where even close to that common. Alcohol on the other hand might very well be used more often than 1 in 200.

jamieb 13y ago
>That's exactly it though, lots of people "experience" being roofied, and then are tested and it turns out they were not. Do you have a link for that?
- silverlake 13y ago
  Toxicological findings in cases of alleged drug-facilitated sexual assault in the United Kingdom over a 3-year period: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16054005 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16054005 TL;DR: 1014 people claimed they were drugged and sexually assaulted. "In 21 cases (2%), a sedative or disinhibiting drug was detected..." So-called "date rape" drugs were a subset of these cases.
  - jamieb 13y ago
    From your source: "Illicit drugs were detected in 344 cases (34%)"
    - Nursie 13y ago
      Illicit does not mean unwitting or unwillingly taken. (Again, no judgement on those that choose to use drugs, I certainly do and I think that drug users are as deserving of protection as anyone else)