Users say it produces positive feelings, empathy and extreme relaxation and eliminates anxiety. It suppresses the need to eat, drink or sleep. It is taken in pill form. Rohypnol is a relaxant 10 times as potent as Valium. Outside the United States, it is legally manufactured and is available by prescription for short-term treatment of severe sleeping disorders.
Drug abusers take Rohypnol with alcohol or marijuana to enhance intoxication.
It is also taken to ease the withdrawal symptoms of other drugs. It is usually taken in pill form. What we have is a series of regional drug epidemics. Suburbs have problems with powdered cocaine and marijuana, and the inner cities face crack cocaine and heroin abuse. Additionally, drugs from the 1970s, such as steroids, are making a comeback, especially with young people, Peters said.