In 1990, the Food and Drug Administration banned the use of GHB except under the supervision of a physician. Now most GHB in the United States is homemade, with recipes available on the Internet. It's a liquid and usually is carried in Visine or hotel shampoo bottles. Ketamine is used in animal hospitals as a tranquilizer and can come in a liquid, powder or pill form. The drugs make victims feel intoxicated and disoriented.
Victims can feel paralyzed, black out and lose their inhibitions and judgment.
Doses even can be lethal, particularly when combined with alcohol. In 1998, the Texas Legislature approved placing use of drugs to commit sexual assault into the category of aggravated sexual assault, Potter County District Attorney Rebecca King said. They have to give consent, and you can't do that if you're unconscious. A lot of the suspects who play this type of game may feel all they have to worry about is her saying no, but that's not the case. In 2000, Northwest Texas Healthcare System's emergency room examined 260 sexual assault victims, and Family Support Services received 181 sexual assault crisis phone calls.