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Canadian Medical Association Journal
More than 20 percent of sexual assaults drug-facilitated
March 19th, 2009
More than 20% of sexual assaults in a sample of 882 victims were drug-facilitated sexual assaults, found a new study published in CMAJ http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg513.pdf. Victims of drug-facilitated sexual assault were more likely than others to present to a large urban centre and to be employed, and to have consumed over-the-counter medications, street drugs, and alcohol before the assault. Few studies have systematically measured the occurrence of drug-facilitated sexual assault and little is known about the victim profile, although this type of assault appears to have increased over the past 10 years. The study, a collaboration between researchers...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-03-19)
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