Dangers
In an effort to fully immobilize his victim and therefore avoid being caught, the rapist may tend to give the victim a dangerously large dose of the incapacitating drug, risking overdose. The victim may have an allergy to the drug, or may be taking a prescription drug that interacts dangerously with it.
Respiratory depression, coma, and death are possibilities when someone unknowingly takes a date rape drug, especially in large doses or in combination with alcohol. Short acting but potent benzodiazepines in particular can be extremely dangerous in combination with alcohol, potentially leading to extreme respiratory depression, a risk which is increased in someone who is naive to benzodiazepines. If the victim does not realize they have been drugged and continues to consume alcohol, the combined effects can lead to coma or death.
Read more about this topic: Date Rape Drug
Famous quotes containing the word dangers:
“So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness—united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“Anyone with a real taste for solitude who indulges that taste encounters the dangers of any other drug-taker. The habit grows. You become an addict.... Absorbed in the visions of solitude, human beings are only interruptions. What voice can equal the voices of solitude? What sights equal the movement of a single day’s tide of light across the floor boards of one room? What drama be as continuously absorbing as the interior one?”
—Jessamyn West (1902–1984)
“The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)