Published in:
27-04-2023 | Rape | Letter to the Editor
Chemical submission and GHB: what we continue to ignore?
Author:
L. Chaouachi
Published in:
Archives of Women's Mental Health
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Issue 3/2023
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Excerpt
Chemical submission (CS) is the administration of a psychoactive substance (PAS) without the victim’s knowledge or under threat for criminal or delinquent purposes. It is distinct from chemical vulnerability (CV), which refers to the state of a person’s fragility induced by the voluntary consumption of a substance that has made him or her more vulnerable to an assault (Chaouachi,
2022c). These two categories are grouped under the more general term of drug-facilitated assault (DFA), which includes any crime or offense committed on a victim under the influence of a PAS. …