Hi

a friend and lover of mine was given a drug in a nightclub that she was told was Ketamine, which she had never tried before. About half an hour later she found herself naked (it was that sort of club, I guess) in a private room with a number of men, all of whom but one - the guy who had given her the "Ketamine" - ran away the moment they saw she was lucid again. He calmed her down, then, when her boyfriend found her, said she'd had a bad reaction to a drug she'd taken and then also fled.

That was late last year. Last week I met someone who has used Ketamine and she stated that what my friend experienced was not the result of Ketamine - which apparently would have sobered her up as well as its more famous effects (I wouldn't know) - but a drug she has heard of as RH20. She said that:

It is a very dirty street drug.
It acts like rohypnol, but only for up to 40 minutes.
It is made from substances stolen from vets.
The ingredients are extremely damaging to a woman's reproductive system, especially the ovaries.
RH20 is not a chemical formula, it is just one name it is known by on the street.
I should tell her to get a medical check, not just the STD checks she has had done.

I have tried googling RH20 but found nothing.

Unfortunately, my friend still believes that she took Ketamine and that she was just drunkenly consenting to what happened. She is in total denial about being raped, even though no condoms were used, and I don't want to break that illusion, even though it has cost me dear, emotionally, in thast she has rejected me rather than the guy who took her there.

Some people might think "well, she deserves what she gets" but please don't be prejudiced against a woman who happens to have a liberated attitude towards certain aspects of life. No-one deserves what happened to her regardless of how drunk and foolish they might be.

Please give any information about what this drug might be and what needs to be done.

Steve

I've just had an update from my informant and she now says RH20 is almost certainly the wrong name, even as a street name for the drug, so even more help please!

Steve

Your query has been forwarded onto our forensic man - in the meanwhile there are a number of names for ketamine mix K2, Special K being a couple of them - or could it even have been GHB? As to a drug causing permanent damage there has been an internet hoax for some years about something called progesterex that in fact doesn't exist. Hope this helps
regards TRF

I am just about to see the woman concerned, and now I realise that at least part of what I’ve been told probably derives from an internet hoax. I could really have worried her. However, I still believe that what she was given was not Ketamine, because I have been informed by an experienced user that it lasts a lot onger than 30 minutes that it negates the effect of alcohol and is not associated with memory loss. She, on the other hand, is completely blank about the missing 30 minutes. Any identification would help.

It was in powder form, if that helps.

If it was powdered it wasn't GHB so I would hazard a guess at a type of benzodiazepine - there's a lot of them but check them out especially rohypnol (flunitrazepam). They all give memory loss when mixed with alcohol. Its also worth pointing out to your friend that the sexual offences act 2003 states that drunken consent is not consent - that goes for being under the effects of drugs as well.
regards,
TRF

Thank you again, but after a talk last night we came to the conclusion that there were things I had assumed because she hadn't told me, that what happened was far more consensual than I had thought, and even though it was drunken consent she would probably have consented to what happened if she had been sober, so it won't be taken further. I had concentrated on the medical aspects, obviously, but she is adamant that the guy who gave her the drug took three times as much as her and I would conclude that it was in fact ketamine after all.

Keep up the good work.

Steve