Jane Maxwell. director of the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (TCADA) says that this loophole continues to allow daterape drugs to cross the border. For example. the drug Rivotril is "everywhere" according to Maxwell. "and is now being used by juveniles . . . just as Rohypnol has been used." A 1996 study documented the controlled substance drug trafficking problem along the U.S.-Mexico border. The study found that in just one year at the Laredo border crossing. over 60.000 drug products were brought in to the U.S. by more than 24.000 people. All of the top 15 drug products. which represented 94.1 percent of the total quantity of declared drugs. were controlled substances. These dangerous drugs. classified as prescription tranquilizers. stimulants. and narcotic analgesics. are potentially addictive and subject to abuse.
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