Rohypnol(Flunitrazepam) is manufactured in pill form. The licit market for the drug is currently supplied with a 1-milligram dose in an olive Green River, unsubdivided tablet, imprinted with the number 542. The new tablet includes a dye that, according to Hoffman-La Roche (the makers by Rohypnol) leave embody seeable if it is slipped into a drink. An intermediate acting benzodiazepine, flunitrazepam is prescribed for the treatment of severe insomnia, marketed by Roche. Test results indicated that flunitrazepam was used in only around 1% of reported date rapes, according to Robertson and 0.33% according to urine lab tests done by El Sohly.
The drug remains readily available, mainly through pharmaceutical operators located in Mexico, especially Tijuana.
Though flunitrazepam is often cited as a date rape drug because of its high potency, strong effects and the ability to cause strong amnesia during its duration of action, investigations into its actual use as a date rape drug have contradicted popular belief.
Flunitrazepam is classed as a nitro-benzodiazepine. It is the fluorinated methylamino derivative of nitrazepam. Other nitro-benzodiazepines include nitrazepam — the parent compound — and clonazepam, the chlorinated derivative.
In addition to the chemically induced amnesia, Rohypnol often causes decreased blood pressure, drowsiness, visual disturbances, dizziness, confusion, astrointestinal disturbances, and urinary retention.
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