December 7, 2014
Blurb
Benedict Carey for the New York Times, in Health
.… Alcohol is still by far the most commonly used drug in sexual assaults, implicated in 40 to 60 percent of reported cases, one recent study found. So-called “knockout” drugs were identified in just 2 to 3 percent of cases. But assaults involving the drugs appear to be on the rise in the United States and elsewhere, and have earned a more menacing reputation than liquor-induced incidents…
“This is common enough that we debated whether to include it as a diagnosis in the D.S.M. 5,” psychiatrists’ influential diagnostic manual, said Dr. Michael First, a Columbia psychiatrist who edited it. But the idea was shelved, in part because of concerns that doing so would give rapists added recourse in legal cases, he said.
Read the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/health/when-rapists-weapon-is-a-drug.h...