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Original publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O. [Congressional Sales Office], 2001. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)47755408 Subject: Designer drugs -- Florida. Excerpt: ... 11 find that is exactly what we are seeing. And that is not just the club drugs, but other drugs as well, such as heroin and cocaine. We launched therefore an operation last year which we entitled Operation Heat Rave, which was essentially phased with training, with some information efforts, and then actually a move against 57 so-called rave clubs throughout the State. And we were amazed by the take. I was first amazed by the reports getting in the under-cover phase of the operation, which lasted a couple of months, by the scene itself, well depicted in the article that you referred to, Mr. Chairman, and I will not go beyond that. But at the end of the Heat Rave effort, we had come up with over 1, 200 arrests and over $ 7.5 million worth of drugs seized. And about almost 140, 000 of these were club drugs, doses of club drugs. So we then realized we had a major problem, but we did not know the extent to which physical harm was being done to the users. That led us in December 1999 to go to the medical examiners in the State, there are 24 of them, and request submissions of club drug-related deaths, and to capture this as best as we could at the time. That is when NIDA came out with its original recognition of the club drug epidemic, as they call it. We went with a list of 20 drugs or their analogs that would indicate that club drugs may have been used. And the numbers started rolling in in January and continue to come in. But as of May 15th, what we were able to determine, that if you aggregated the direct cause of death and related cause of death, we believed in Florida that we had a total of 188 dead in the last 3 years. We took the years 1997, 1998, 1999. Now a quick note on that because I am getting short on time, we found that, of that, very seldom was it a
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An emerging drug threat in central Florida: club drugs: hearing before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy
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