How to Detect Date Rape Drugs In Your Drink: New $5 Test Helps

To protect US students from sexual abuse, a new device is now offered by Undercover Colors. As reported by EfficientGov, it can detect date rape drugs in one’s drink. The Typical Student team learned more about it.

What Is Let’s Be Clear?

Source: Undercover Colors

The new drug detection device called “Let’s Be Clear” works very similarly to a home pregnancy test. It was developed by Undercover Colors, based in North Carolina State University, and also famous for one more student invention of the same kind. That is, a student-developed nail polish prototype that, “with a dip of a varnished finger nail in a cocktail, could alert a person that a drink has been contaminated with a date rape drug”.

Which Date Rape Drugs Does It Screen For?

Source: Undercover Colors

Let’s Be Clear screens screens alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages for common date rape drugs like:

• Flunitrazepam (“Roofies”/Rohypnol)
• Alprazolam (Xanax)
• Diazepam (Valium)
• Midazolam (Versed)
• Oxazepam (Serax)
• Temazepam (Restoril)

How to Detect Date Rape Drugs with Let’s Be Clear?

Source: Undercover Colors

To use the “Let’s Be Clear” test, that’s about the size of a quarter, take it out of its foil pack,  and put a drop of a drink with a finger on the device.

The results come in 30 seconds, though the FAQs on the website say the test could take a full three minutes to complete.

• Two lines mean the drink is good, the drink is not drugged.
• One line means the drink is tampered with.

Currently, a started kit is offered with five single-use tests and four carriers (key rings and carriers that attach to smartphones) as well as 10-piece refill packages. It costs about $5 per test to detect date rape drugs if buying through the website.