Berbs, the comment "rohypnol is a myth" really does sum up the reason I felt the need to bring this thread and others like it back. What a thing to say

I had to curtail my Friday five-a-side for over forties followed by food and special fags and some funk - by an hour when I saw this. Berbs comment on its own would not have done it.
So Quod, there is a faction people out there who think 'rohypnol is a myth', constant problem you are hearing about? Convenient excuse to hang me and your reason for bringing up the thread.
Now lets look at my comment 'rohypnol is a myth' - it is non-sensical, obviously I meant something else, lol magically thinking those three words will explain my drift, obviously not. last night must have typed a, I don't know, over a thousand words on different topics, I made a rash post, left it too bare, for others to picks on, missed leaving the substance, so to speak. Scuse the mis-step.
What I meant.
It is a myth that rohypnol use is as widespread as perhaps thought. My two best friends are laywers, spoke to one of them tonight, asked him how many rape cases he has been involved in, he said - including those that require a visit to the police station but charges might not be brought - he said 20. How many involve alcohol? Virtually all of them. How many involve Rohypnol - None. On it's own it as good as Berbs anecdote. he said possibly that Rohypnol was a city type thing. But he had never come across it in twenty years and twenty cases.
In addition, the last time I was on this train of though, I checked the research behind rohypnol/alcohol and rape. What I found was an over-representation of women who thought they had been administered rohypnol but when checked it was alcohol. Now that was two years ago - but the general impression was that many victims had drunk themselves into stupor. This does not discount the use of rohypnol as a date rape drug, but the real date-rape drug is alcohol. two thirds of all rapes in the UK involve alcohol. My advice to my daughter still stands.