Tattoo take drinks can help detect spiking

A temporary “tattoo” can provide the partygorce, which can provide with a secret indicator in search of a secret night with a secret indicator, which often provides for the detection of drugs used to spike the drinks in public bars and clubs.Rohipnol, also known as “roof”, and also known as GHB, sometimes called “liquid ecstasy” or “fantasy”, club drugs are used, often by young people, bars and nightclubes, rush and other nightlife settings. It is an illegal drug at many places including the United States, Britain and Australia.While some doses of these club drugs can cause a feeling of relaxation or enthusiasm, excessive doses can cause signs of drowsiness, diluted speech, loss of motor function, confusion and memory loss. Overdose and poisoning are also possible.Drug regulators have also identified both drugs, who prefer toxins of choice for criminals for spike drinks, presenting their victims unconscious or close, and then sexually assaulting them.Because these are short -lived, tasteless and colorless drugs, it is especially difficult for those who want to exclude a safe night to know if their drink has become sharp.However, a new report published in its journal ACS sensor in the American Chemical Society has described an innovation from the South Korean Research Group that can make the identity of the drug practically comfortable.

Rapid, prudent test for danger drugs

There are already products that allow people to identify whether a drink has been dipped. These appear in the form of strips that can be immersed in a drink, indicating the presence of an unwanted chemical with a color change.However, such technology may take minutes and leave a person weak for other social threats with such a clear test method.The new rapid test developed by scientists finished by the South Korean government can provide an option.Looks like a tattoo, but in reality in a removable sticker, the new product can provide an opportunity to recognize the presence of GHB quickly and subtle.Silicon sticker is an solution embedded in the film with an iodide indicator called BHEI. When the GHB comes in contact with a solution containing GHB, the indicator turns from yellow to red.According to the reported results, the sticker changed the color almost immediately when exposed to GHB drops in whiskey, vodka, beer or coffee.For stickers wearing, they will only need to highlight their markers in a drop of their drink for change. It was sensitive to detect 0.01 mg GHB per milliliter.“This innovation represents an active and accessible solution to prevent the sexual assault with drug-facilities, increase personal safety and promote a sense of control and awareness in a high-risk environment,” authors have written in the study.

Promising, but further testing is required

This is not the first time that sensors have been developed to detect date rape drugs. More than a decade ago, a group of the National University of Singapore developed a fluorescent sensor platform, which can be made in drinks styers and straws to indicate drinking drinks with GHB.A US startup first invented a quick testing platform which was tested for several drugs using the test disc.But fast test products will need to be developed before going to the market.Kabrena Rodda, a forensic toxicologist at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory in the US, said some spot tests may be unreliable.“Unfortunately, the methods of spot detection such as they can often have high false positive rates – that is, telling you that it is not really not,” the obstacle, who was not involved in the new study, told DW in an email.“It can motivate people to avoid drinks that can be safe, which in turn can instill a wrong confidence that GHB is being spiced in people’s drinks.”However, Roda stated that the sticker test developed by Korean researchers was “admirable and important.”An enterprise company has now been established to bring and bring the product to the market in South Korea. But adaptation and adaptability to other target drugs are currently limited.“A custom mold should be made and the GHB should be filled with a chemical receptor-containing agarose gel, so Giang-G Kim, the lead author of the study located at Suungkankavan University in South Korea, said,” There may be limitations in designing figures such as actual tattoos. “” Adaptation is somewhat possible, but it is technically constrained.“We have not yet developed chemical receptors to detect other drugs. However, if receptors have been developed for substances such as opioids or synthetic canbinoids, we believe that they can be integrated into our tattoo sticker platforms.”