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"Predatory
Drugs" is a term used to identify drugs that can be used to facilitate
sexual assault. In the late 1990s, law enforcement noticed a new, disturbing
trend of rape cases that involved the drugging of victims with chemicals
such as rohypnol, GHB, and ketamine. What are Club Drugs? "Club Drugs" has become a widely used term for a number of illicit drugs that are most commonly encountered at nightclubs and all-night parties called "raves." The three primary club drugs are Ecstasy, Ketamine, and GHB. Many other drugs are generally available in the club and rave circuit, however these three drugs are more closely associated with clubs because that is where they are most frequently used.
DEA
Response to Club Drugs:
Law Enforcement Strategy International/National Response
Community Outreach
Operation Webslinger: A Recent GHB Operation
Awareness of GHB's
use to facilitate sexual assault is largely due to the efforts of the
family of Samantha Reid. Reid, a fifteen-year old Michigan girl, died
after ingesting GHB that was slipped into her soda by a classmate. The
law that declared GHB a Schedule I drug is named in Reid's honor. Reid's
mother Judi Clark was at DEA to help announce the success of Operation
Webslinger. Operation
Green Clover: A Recent DEA Club Drug Case
Recent DEA Ketamine Cases DEA
Arrests 8 in Today the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) in Miami, together with the U.S. Attorney's Office
announce the arrest of eight defendants involved in an international ketamine
distribution ring which has been operating in South Florida for the past
year. Several local police departments and federal agencies assisted in
this investigation: Miami Beach Police Department, Broward County Sheriff's
Office, Coral Gables Police Department, United States Secret Service,
City of Miami Police Department, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms,
Internal Revenue Service. DEA
Missouri Office Seizes On
April 21, 2002, the DEA Springfield Missouri Resident Office assisted
the Missouri State Highway Patrol with the seizure of a shipment of Ketamine
believed to be en route from Los Angeles to New York. Law enforcement
officers discovered 5 suitcases containing a total of 20 sealed Federal
Express Packages. Contained inside these boxes was a total of three thousand
nine hundred ninety eight (3,998) ten milliliter vials of Ketamine.
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What
are Predatory Drugs?
DEA
hosted the International Conference on Ecstasy and Club Drugs in
partnership with approximately 300 officials from domestic and foreign
law enforcement, judicial, chemical, prevention and treatment communities.
The conference was held from July 31, 2000 to August 2, 2000 at DEA Headquarters
in Arlington, Virginia. As a follow-up to the conference, almost all of
the DEA Field Divisions have hosted/sponsored club drug conferences. DEA
headquarters has directed the Demand Reduction Coordinators (DRCs) to
continue hosting club drug conferences within their respective areas of
responsibility. 
DEA
Operation Webslinger went down on September 18, 2002, arresting dozens
responsible for trafficking GHB and other "date rape" drugs
over the internet. 
In
Denver, Colorado, DEA announced 55 arrests that took place as part of
"Operation Green Clover," an investigation into one of the largest
Ecstasy distribution networks in the country. Those arrested included
the leader of the drug ring, several cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy,
and the three people responsible for selling an Ecstasy tablet that caused
the death of Brittney Chambers, a 16-year-old Colorado girl, in January
2001. Most of the arrests occurred on August 30, 2001. 
