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More discreet and accurate than anything else on the market, the simple, innocuous-looking drink stir comes with a tip that will change color if exposed to any of the common drugs used by ...

It’s a small stir stick, dubbed Spikeless, that can detect common drugs secretly slipped into drinks such as gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) and ketamine. It gives results within seconds. “Anywhere ...

The university said in a news release that the "seemingly ordinary stir stick" can detect drugs such as GHB and ketamine within 30 seconds, changing colour if a beverage is contaminated.

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 ...

VANCOUVER — A team of researchers at the University of British Columbia want to make a stir stick drug testing tool for spiked drinks the norm in the hospitality industry, and they’re gearing ...

VANCOUVER — Researchers at the University of British Columbia say they're gearing up to start "real-world testing" of a stir stick that can detect if a drink has been spiked with drugs.