I had to produce a body of research based upon a headline from a newspaper bought on Saturday 17th October 2009. The Headline I chose was ''SPOT RAPE DRUG WITH... LIP GLOSS!''. It was about the latest gizmo created by the company ' 2LoveMyLips', as a way of detecting if your drink has been spiked. I chose this article as I think it is an serious and improant issue, as drink spiking and rape could happen to anybody, but I think it is especially appliable to my age group, and being a student it has made me more aware of situations that can happen on a night out, as there are many drink spike victims.
The concept for my research was based on drink spiking and being more in control of preventing it from happening by becoming more aware of the facts and protecting yourself. The ideas I chose to take forward into investigating further were:
1. Statistics - spike victims, rape victims (both men and women)
2. Binge Drinking - side effects, and how to tell if somebody has been spiked or has just drank too much.
3. Information on different date rape drugs and their effects.
Here are a few facts and figures I have found out through researching the above.
The Guardian and the Channel 4 programme Dispatches recently interviewed 750 people in 16 cities over a period of two days. 1 in 4 women of club and pub-going age surveyed said that they had had their drinks spiked. According tot he survey, as many as thirty women a week are victims of drink spiking. Despit attempts all over the country to curb the escalating problem of drink spiking, the number of incidents reported continues to increase year after year.'' www.2lovemylips.co.uk
People need to be made more aware of the dangerous situations that they could end up in.
''8 out of 10 women wouldn't report a rape''
''There are more than 80 sex attacks every day in the UK''
''Only 1 in 100 assaults leads to convitcion''
''three-quarters of rapes are never reported''
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Victims of Rape:
80% are under age 30
12-34 are the highest risk years
Girls aged 16-19 are 4 times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.
In 2003, 1 in every 10 victims were male
1 out of every 6 women has been the victim of an attemtped or completed rape in her lifetime
Effects of Rape
Victims of sexual assault are
3 times mroe likely to suffer from dpression
6 times mroe likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress isorder
13 times mroe likely to abuse alcohol
26 times more likely to abuse drugs
4 times more likely to contemplate suicide
www.rainn.org/statistics
''There's been an increase in sex crime involving tranquillisers like Rohypnol. Victims drinks are spiked with the drug, knocking them out into an often paralysed stupor so they're either unaware of or unable to prevent a sexual assault.''
''Due to its illegal abuse, this drug (Rohypnol) is more commonly known as the 'date rape' drug. It is very easy to be slipped into drinks undetected.''
''Because GHB and BGL can really knock you out, it's been linked to drug assisted sexual assaul. This is a punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment.''
www.talktofrank.com
People need to be made more aware of the dangerous situations that they could end up in.
''8 out of 10 women wouldn't report a rape''
''There are more than 80 sex attacks every day in the UK''
''Only 1 in 100 assaults leads to convitcion''
''three-quarters of rapes are never reported''
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Victims of Rape:
80% are under age 30
12-34 are the highest risk years
Girls aged 16-19 are 4 times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.
In 2003, 1 in every 10 victims were male
1 out of every 6 women has been the victim of an attemtped or completed rape in her lifetime
Effects of Rape
Victims of sexual assault are
3 times mroe likely to suffer from dpression
6 times mroe likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress isorder
13 times mroe likely to abuse alcohol
26 times more likely to abuse drugs
4 times more likely to contemplate suicide
www.rainn.org/statistics
''There's been an increase in sex crime involving tranquillisers like Rohypnol. Victims drinks are spiked with the drug, knocking them out into an often paralysed stupor so they're either unaware of or unable to prevent a sexual assault.''
''Due to its illegal abuse, this drug (Rohypnol) is more commonly known as the 'date rape' drug. It is very easy to be slipped into drinks undetected.''
''Because GHB and BGL can really knock you out, it's been linked to drug assisted sexual assaul. This is a punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment.''
www.talktofrank.com
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