UBC researchers have developed Spikeless, a seemingly ordinary stir stick capable of detecting common drink-spiking drugs like GHB and ketamine within 30 seconds, potentially preventing assaults.

Now researchers at UBC have developed a tool that could help catch spiked drinks and stop sexual assaults before they happen. Spikeless is an ordinary-looking stir stick that changes colour when ...

Spikeless, which looks like an ordinary stir stick, is capable of detecting common drink spiking drugs like GHB and ketamine within 30 seconds, potentially preventing assaults. GHB, or gamma ...

University of B.C. researchers have invented a stir stick they say can detect whether a drink has been spiked with common date-rape drugs. It is made of a paper material that would draw a small ...

Now researchers at UBC have developed a tool that could help catch spiked drinks and stop sexual assaults before they happen. Spikeless is an ordinary-looking stir stick that changes colour when drugs ...

in the hopes it will one day be used widely to combat drugs being added to drinks and to prevent sexual assaults. The university said in a news release that the "seemingly ordinary stir stick ...