Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

[Linda Lumley <>]

To Jodi Caldwell, who inquired about what kind of drug might have
been involved in several cases she's seen where women exhibited same
symptoms:

I sent your description to C. Dennis Simpson, Ph.D., who is
director of Western Michigan University's Speciality Certificate
Program in Alcohol and Drugs, and this is his response:


 MDMA ( Ecstacy ) will tend to disinhibit libidinal effects (
amorous ). It will not produce a "blackout " as decribed in the
message. Rohypnol and GHB will produce such a blackout state. If you
add ETOH and rohypnol or GHB you will obtain the general
disinhibition along with the blackout. If you add ETOH, MDMA and
rohypnol or GHB you wouild get the type of behavior described in the
message. In this case you would not need very much ETOH . The
problem is that MDMA tends to potentiate the effects of ETOH . As
such the results could be unexpected or , at certain doses not
normally lethal, become lethal. You would want to check for
depression of the CNS to help define this. The problem is
determining that the actaul drugs were present that far ex post
facto to the event.



Linda Lumley, M.P.H.
coordinator, Gender and Health Education
Office of Health Promotion and Education
Sindecuse Health Center
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI  49008-5445
269-387-2995
fax 269-387-3559