DrinkSavvy with Color-Changing Date Rape Drug Detectors

December 4, 2012 // 2:43 pm // By: Aziza Sullivan

There is no shortage of horror stories, warnings, and/or statistics about the usage of date rape drugs at college parties, clubs and bars. Most of us, hopefully, know to watch our drinks, not take anything from people we don’t know, etc, etc.

My personal solution is to stay in bed under my Batman blanket on Friday nights, confident that no one spiked my eighth bowl of popcorn, and even if they did, my two-dimensional Dark Knight will protect me. But for those of you who are more adventurous/social, there’s DrinkSavvy.

It’s a new start-up, already featured on The Morning Show, Bust Magazine, and TrendHunter. DrinkSavvy is the brain child of one Mike Abramson, who, tragically, is no stranger to drug-facilitated sexual assault. About his proposed product seeking funding on indiegogo, he says:

The problem is that date rape drugs are odorless, colorless, and tasteless once they’re in your drink…With the help of Dr. John MacDonald, a professor of chemistry at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and with the help of Contract Researching Organizations, DrinkSavvy is developing material that will immediately change color to warn you if a drug is slipped into your drink.

While DrinkSavvy can only offer a limited number of plastic straws/stirrers and cups (to backers pledging $10 and up), they are also working on manufacturing and selling glasses, all of which will change color when a drug is added to the mix. Of course, as Abramson points out, this is no excuse to participate in unsafe party behaivors: please continue to not drink from that communal punch bowl.

Major party foul.

Seriously.

For more information, check out Mike’s video below. Warning: Contains serious, adult content.

Via indiegogo

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Aziza Sullivan has always enjoyed three things in excess: food, writing, and sleeping. While the first two are happily combined, the third tends to get in the way, since it turns out the average reader is uninterested in sleep blogs. She also enjoys coffee, probably too much, if there is such a thing.

Anonymous

Sometimes man you just gotta roll with those punches.

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http://www.facebook.com/InklingBooks Michael W. Perry

I received that drug when I had hernia surgery last year, mostly because I told my anesthesiologist “I don’t want to remember this.” My memories end while waiting in pre-op and resume suddenly when I woke up in post-op. There is absolutely nothing in between. Scarily, it does work.

A pill that turns a drink a bright or even fluorescent color might be more practical to carry around and use than a glass. Prosecuting the daylights out of the jerks who use it would help too. Treat it as attempted rape, which it is.

FFCSL600

I think the glasses aren’t really intended for you to carry, but for bars/clubs to stock, as well as hope that party throwers buy them instead of other cups. Going to be hard to break the tradition of the red solo cup, but it’s a start.
FFCSL600

Then again, I can’t get the video to load. So I’m just basing my comments on the article and my general thoughts.