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Dr. Steve Smith (Emergency Department physician at Hennepin
County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN) and Dr. Deborah Zvosec,
PhD., Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation have been
conducting research on GHB-related health issues since 1998,
including GHB overdose, GHB addiction and withdrawal, and GHB-facilitated
sexual assault.
In an attempt to address the critical lack of clinical data,
they are compiling a case series of victims of GHB-facilitated
sexual assault, to be published and utilized for education of
clinicians, law enforcement and the public.
The case series combines:
1) Subjective data from the victim regarding her description of
events (setting, symptoms, assault if he/she remembers it,
aftermath)
2) Clinical data from the sexual assault exam
3) Toxicologic confirmation of GHB and other intoxicants
4) Corroborative police reports, if available and necessary
In order to be included in the case series, the victim must
have tested GHB Positive by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry
(GC/MS) analysis of either blood or urine. Unfortunately,
they are only able to include those who have such toxicologic
confirmation of GHB in this study.
Please pass on the project description to potential participants
or provide them with the contact information listed below, so
that they may contact the researcher directly.
Deborah Zvosec, PhD
Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation
GHB-facilitated Sexual Assault Research Project
(612) 347-3703
dzvodsec@mmrf.or
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