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Prevention: Initiative wants to sensitize to knockout drops
Published on September 14, 2025
Around 1,000 test hardships against so-called knockout drops are to be distributed to schoolchildren in Speyer over the next few weeks.The edition is carried out until the autumn holidays, among other things, through school social work, as the Zonta Club Speyer-Germersheim e.V. announced as the initiator of the project.
"There will be more cities," said a spokeswoman, "first Germersheim, later probably Neustadt/Weinstraße, Bad Bergzabern and Karlsruhe, each financed by the local Zonta clubs."
The paper bands enable drinks to test drinks on knockout drops.For this purpose, the drink is stirred with a straw or stir bar, a drop of a drop of a test field-after two minutes at the latest there is a result: if the field turns blue, the drink probably contains knockout drops.
Small quantities are sufficient to give a hint to give a simple chemical reaction, it said.The bracelets are issued after personal advice and information about the dangers of knockout drops.
The chemical substances gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) and 1,4-buzzandiol are known as knockout drops that can be placed in drinks.After a few minutes, the victims become dizzy, they can lose consciousness.Perpetrators use the time for sexual offenses or theft.
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