Club drugs refer to a wide variety of dangerous drugs often used by young adults at all-night dance parties, dance clubs and bars. The best known of the so-called club drugs used is ecstasy, but there are many others. Club drugs are also sometimes used as "date rape" drugs, to make someone unable to say no to or fight back against sexual assault. This book presents information about ecstasy and other club drugs, including their history, how they are distributed, and their physical and psychological effects highlighted by personal stories.

Club drugs refer to a wide variety of dangerous drugs often used by young adults at all-night dance parties, dance clubs and bars. The best known of the so-called club drugs used is ecstasy, but there are many others. Club drugs are also sometimes used as "date rape" drugs, to make someone unable to say no to or fight back against sexual assault. This book presents information about ecstasy and other club drugs, including their history, how they are distributed, and their physical and psychological effects highlighted by personal stories.

Presents information about ecstasy and other club drugs, including their history, how they are distributed, physical and psychological effects, and treatment options for addicts.

Ecstasy and meth are the most common of the club drugs, but they are not the only ones. This new volume investigates the health and social effects of the club drug phenomenon on American youth.

It's a national epidemic and an international conspiracy. Drugs have infested our society with a vengeance, making the drug enforcement agent a central figure in the war on drugs. International training teams of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have traditionally taught the special skills required by all drug agents. Until now, there has never been a book for public consumption devoted strictly to this specialized field of criminal investigation. Global Drug Enforcement: Practical Investigative Techniques provides basic and advanced methods for conducting modern drug investigations. With coverage of source countries, drug identification, conspiracy investigations, clandestine laboratories, drug intelligence, and money laundering, the book includes the topics that every detective assigned to a drug investigation unit must know. The chapter on drug identification discusses the drugs that all law enforcement officers are likely to encounter including heroin, marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, PCP, and the emerging club drugs of Ecstasy, GHB, and Ketamine. A glossary of common terms used in drug enforcement and chapters on the nexus between drugs and terrorism provide additional insight. Based on the training and experiences of a recently retired Supervisory Special Agent of the DEA who was a former instructor for DEA's Office of Training at the FBI Academy, this book provides domestic and international agencies with a comprehensive reference on contemporary drug enforcement. It greatly expands on many of the topics that DEA employees receive in their training and covers the areas that investigators need to understand in order to conduct safe and effective drug operations.

The substances regarded as club drugs were originally intended to act as painkillers and anesthetics. For the most part ecstasy, ketamine, GHB, and Rohypnol have been discarded by physicians due to their side effects and potential for abuse. Nevertheless, the drugs have swept through rave culture and are now becoming substances of abuse in other segments of society as well. GHB, ketamine, and Rohypnol have also been employed for a far more sinister purpose; as date rape drugs. Author Hal Marcovitz presents a thorough history of club drugs, discussing abuse, the dangers of club drugs, and attempts to eliminate club drugs.