Hillary J. Farias and Samantha Reid

United States President William J. Clinton (1946-) signs the Hillary J. Farias and Samantha Reid Date Rape Drug Prohibition Act into law. 

The case was watched closely by authorities, and in response to public outcry over Samantha Reid s death, Congress banned the substance in April 2000. At the same time, President Clinton signed the Hillary J. Farias and Samantha Reid Date Rape Drug Prohibition Act into law. The law also commemorates Farias, a 17-year-old high-school senior from La Porte, Texas, who died from a GHB overdose after someone slipped it into her soda. 

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