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Content Research:

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/staying-safe-while-drinking/drink-spiking-and-date-rape-drugs - helpline contact info for graphics

 

'Date-rape drugs' can be odourless, colourless and tasteless. They also leave the body within a short amount of time making them hard to detect.

Reference: https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/staying-safe-while-drinking/drink-spiking-and-date-rape-drugs

 

 

According to the NHS, alcohol is used more commonly than drugs to spike drinks1. Shots of alcohol can be added to drinks to make them stronger. This causes someone to get drunk much quicker than expected.

Rohypnol (or Roofie) and Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) are the most commonly known ‘date-rape’ drugs. Both drugs can be used to commit physical and sexual assaults as they can sedate or incapacitate a victim, making them more vulnerable to attack.

Recreational drugs like Ecstasy, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD), Ketamine and other ‘party-drugs’ are sometimes used to spike alcoholic drinks. Mixing alcohol and stimulants can be very dangerous and can cause serious problems, ranging from nausea to heart failure.

According to the NHS, alcohol is used more commonly than drugs to spike drinks, with the intention to get someone drunk quicker than expected. Rohypnol, commonly known as Roofie, Gamma Hydroxybutyrate are the most commonly known ‘date-rape’ drugs. Intentions include sexual and physical assault as they can sedate or incapacitate the victim, making them more vulnerable to attack. Recreational drugs

 

 

 

 

 

On college and uni campuses, more than a third of college and uni students in one study claimed to know someone who has been drugged without their knowledge. (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0734016817747011)

 

The first school assumes that drink-spiking is a serious problem and attempts to isolate its risk factors, so that these crimes might be prevented (Girard & Senn, 2008; Lasky, Fisher, Henricksen, & Swan, 2017; McBrierty, Wilkinson, & Tormey, 2013; McPherson, 2007; Richer et al., 2015; Swan et al., 2017). The second school questions whether there really is a problem at all, looking instead at how beliefs about drink-spiking persist as a predatory crime narrative (Burgess, Donovan, & Moore, 2009; Donovan, 2016; Moore, 2009; Sheard, 2011). While these scholars acknowledge that drugs (particularly alcohol) play a role in facilitating sexual assault encounters (Krebs, Lindquist, Warner, Fisher, & Martin, 2007, 2009), they argue that the drugging narrative that people fear most—surreptitious drugging for purposes of sexual assault—is overestimated (Weiss & Colyer, 2010). Despite more than a decade of scholarship on this topic, the two orientations continue to talk past each other, drawing contradictory conclusions based on the same general data. (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0734016817747011)

 

 

 

 

 

Sustainable Fashion

●      Every year the fashion industry uses 93 billion cubic meters of water — enough to meet the consumption needs of five million people.

●      Around 20 % of wastewater worldwide comes from fabric dyeing and treatment.

●      Of the total fiber input used for clothing, 87 % is incinerated or disposed of in a landfill.

●      The fashion industry is responsible for 10 % of annual global carbon emissions, more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined. At this pace, the fashion industry’s greenhouse gas emissions will surge more than 50 % by 2030.

●      If demographic and lifestyle patterns continue as they are now, global consumption of apparel will rise from 62 million metric tons in 2019 to 102 million tons in 10 years.

●      Every year a half a million tons of plastic microfibers are dumped into the ocean, the equivalent of 50 billion plastic bottles. The danger? Microfibers cannot be extracted from the water and they can spread throughout the food chain.

●      Less than 1 % of used clothing is recycled into new garments. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation estimates that every year some USD 500 billion in value is lost due to clothing that is barely worn, not donated, recycled, or ends up in a landfill.

Reference:

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2019/09/23/costo-moda-medio-ambiente

 

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