Date Rape Drug Hair Test (Benzo's, Rohypnol, Ketamine & GHB)
Please make sure to include possible date of incident on the form. Results will be available on average of 10 to 14 business days after sample is received at laboratory.
Tests give quantified analysis for detection of following drug classes:
Rohypnol: According to NIDA, Rohypnol's trade name for flunitrazepam, and this drug belongs to a class of drugs known as benzodiazepines. Rohypnol can incapacitate victims and prevent them from resisting sexual assault. This drug can produce "anterograde amnesia," which means individuals may not remember events they experienced while under the effects of the drug. Also, Rohypnol may be lethal when mixed with alcohol and/or other depressants.
Rohypnol is not approved for use in the United States, and its importation is banned. Illicit abuse of Rohypnol started appearing in the United States in the early 1990s, where it became known as "rophies," "roofies," "roach," and "rope."
Abuse of two other similar drugs appears to have replaced Rohypnol abuse in some regions of the country. These are clonazepam, marketed in the U.S. as Klonopin and in Mexico as Rivotril, and alprazolam, marketed as Xanax.
GHB: Since about 1990, GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate) has been abused in the U.S. for its euphoric, sedative, and anabolic (body building) effects. It is a central nervous system depressant that was widely available over-the-counter in health food stores during the 1980s and until 1992. It was purchased largely by body builders to aid in fat reduction and muscle building. Street names include "liquid ecstasy," "soap," "easy lay," "vita-G," and "Georgia home boy."
Coma and seizures can occur following abuse of GHB. Combining abuse of GHB with other drugs such as alcohol can result in nausea and breathing difficulties. GHB may also produce withdrawal effects, including insomnia, anxiety, tremors, and sweating. GHB and two of its precursors, gamma butyrolactone (GBL) and 1,4 butanediol (BD), have been involved in poisonings, overdoses, date rapes, and deaths.
Ketamine: Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic, so called because it distorts perceptions of sight and sound and produces feelings of detachment from the environment and self. Ketamine acts on a type of glutamate receptor (NMDA receptor) to produce its effects, similar to those of the drug PCP.1 Low-dose intoxication results in impaired attention, learning ability, and memory. At higher doses, ketamine can cause dreamlike states and hallucinations; and at higher doses still, ketamine can cause delirium and amnesia.
Results may read endogenous limits or exogenous limits when showing results for GHB. Endogenous is the amount of GHB found in our bodies on a normal basis. This amount varies from person to person.
Levels reported as endogenous means they are what are normally found in the person's system. The date of the suspected incident is requested so that when the lab tests that timeframe, they find levels of GHB. They then test outside that date range to compare GHB levels during the suspected timeframe and then outside the timeframe.
When GHB levels during the suspected timeframe and other timeframes are the same, the report shows an endogenous level. If the levels are higher during the suspected time frame, the levels would be reported as exogenous meaning outside the normal levels. A specific exogenous level would also be reported.
The reporting of endogenous or exogenous levels is only true for GHB and NOT for Ketamine or Rohipnol.
One crucial thing to keep in mind is that the person in question should wait at least one month after the suspected incident to cut a hair sample from closest to the scalp to send in.
Please be sure to provide a valid phone number and email address as this test requires that you sign and return a form before your order can be processed.
2. The collector for the hair test sample first evaluates if the Donor has sufficient hair on head for collection. Approximately 1-3 inches of hair should be available for collection.
3. The collector for the hair test sample cleans sharp scissors or razor with an alcohol swab in front of donor.
4. The collector for the hair test sample holds hair and cut close to scalp. Hair sample should be cut from base of neck if possible as close to the scalp as possible. Is available collect approximately the size of an erasure head diameter quantity of hair. That makes about 100 strands of hair. The laboratory will try to run analysis with even a few strands of hair, but due to nature of multiple of screening and confirmation tests that will be done on the hair sample, Laboratory might run out of sample and might not finalize all necessary testing with limited amount of hair. At that point the test results will be notified as Quantity Insufficient and you will not be able to get a quantified result.
5. If the hair sample collector determines that insufficient hair is available on head or base of neck, then sample collector can collect hair from under arms, chest, beard, or crotch area.
Please make sure to note on the chain of custody form where hair collected from in comment section.
6. Place hair sample inside foil pouch with end cut closest to scalp toward the V shaped end of foil.
7. Close the foil pouch around hair and place inside the Hair Collection Kit.
8. Have Donor print name and any ID number (depending on the requirements, it is optional to put full name, social security number, drivers license number on the form and the collection kit.) on top of kit. Even if you are not providing your full name, ID numbers, please still make sure to put chain of custody specimen id number on the collection kit.
9. Have Donor & Collector initial tamper proof seal and place over the edge of the Collection Kit.
10. Fill out Chain-of-Custody form with Donor and Collector information. You can use John Doe or Joe Doe for confidentiality.
11. Place Chain-of-Custody form and Hair Kit in transport bag, seal bag and ship to laboratory for testing.
12. Depending on the sample (different types of hair and potential test results effect length of processing –i.e. non-negatives samples usually take longer since they will have to go through more steps of testing -), results can take anywhere from one business day to five business day after laboratory receives the sample. You can change the shipping and send in with express or other forms of shipment using a shipping service provider of your own (at your expense), just make sure to keep the tracking number and the specimen id number of chain of custody form so that we can track your order in case there is any need.
** Please make sure to include possible date of incident on the form **
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