Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent scientific breakthrough could be a huge help to victims of drug-facilitated sexual assault. Scientists from the British ...

A soap manufacturer is coming to the defense of a punk rocker who was jailed after his bottle of liquid peppermint cleanser tested positive for gamma-hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, often called the ...

Scientists have developed a new method for the rapid diagnosis of poisoning in apparently drunk patients. Scientists working at Loughborough University, UK, and the University of Cordoba, Spain, have ...

Gamma hydroxybutyric acid – better-known as GHB – is a drug that makes people sleepy and can induce amnesia. That's why it's become a popular "date rape" drug. Unfortunately for law enforcement ...

A new test can detect presence of the "date rape" drug GHB and fake alcohol in saliva. The new spit test can be taken as soon as the patient arrives at the clinic or hospital and can provide results ...

Researchers reporting in ACS Sensors have created a temporary tattoo sticker that has a hidden, but possibly lifesaving, purpose: detecting the presence of one drug used to "spike" alcoholic beverages ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Despite two court orders, the lawyer for Pedro Abad, the off-duty Linden, N.J., police officer accused of driving drunk in a fatal wrong-way crash on the West Shore Expressway ...

Scientists have discovered that regular use of the party drug GHB, and especially unconsciousness following GHB use, is associated with brain changes including negative effects on long-term memory, ...

A recent scientific breakthrough could be a huge help to victims of drug-facilitated sexual assault. Scientists from the British Loughborough University and Spain's University of Cordoba have shown ...