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How the Smart Sip detects date rape drugs

Entrepreneurs are looking at straws as a way to detect when a drink has been tampered with.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Neve Palmeri, a sophomore at Providence College who recently won the Big East Startup Competition with a reusable drinking straw, called Smart Sip, that can detect the chemicals of a drug.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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