LACROSSE, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse student was charged with sexual assault after a fellow student told police she believed she was drugged at a house party and then raped in a dorm. Charged was Logan Zdanowicz, age 19. Bail was set at $5,000 by Judge Elliott Levine. The criminal complaint says that Zdanowicz was asked by police if he thought the woman was in the right state of mind to consent to sex. “Probably not, no. We were both pretty drunk,” he was quoted as saying. However, Zdanowicz denied putting any drugs in her drink. This is what the woman said happened on Saturday night as best as she could remember through the haze of her situation:
> She was drinking with a group at Tequilas Bar and Grill a few blocks from campus.
> She then went to a house party.
> She felt sick after a beer given to her by someone at the house party.
> Walking back to the dorms with Zdanowicz, he mentioned a game called “roofie roulette,” and she became concerned she was drugged.
> She was carried to a room in the Laux dorm where she vaguely remembers a friend and Zdanowicz talking.
> She passed out on a futon.
> Thirty minutes or so tater, the friend and Zdanowicz left.
> The dorm door was left unlocked, and Zdanowicz came back, took off her clothes, and assaulted her.
> Being drugged, she was not able to fight him off.
Zdanowicz. From southwest Wisconsin.
“Roofie” profile
“Roofie” is street talk for a powerful benzodiazepine sedative and hypnotic known also as the date-rape drug.. One band name is Rohypnol, hence the term “roofie.” It was patented in 1962 but was never licensed in the United Sates. Medical use is limited elsewhere to short-term application for chronic insomnia and also to assist with anesthesia. Illicit use includes pulveizig a pill into a powder. Results can be excessive sedation, impairment of balance and speech, respiratory depression, or coma. Excessive sedation can cause death. Since 1998 the global pharmaceutical manufacturer Roche has added a blue dye for easier detection in drinks.
“Spanish fly” profile
An date-rape drug, Spanish Fly, dates to ancient times. It was made bgy crushing blister beetles and adding the powder to a sweetened drnk. Side effects from excessive use included death, as Marquis de Sade discovered in 1772 after giving sweet aniseed balls laced to prostitutes who ended dying horrible deaths. Blister beedless ae so called because contact with undiluted amouts leads to cantharidin skin blisters. Spanish Fly still exists a marketing tool but generally bgus — merely sweetened water with no woozing or arousing effect.