Needle spiking

Needle spiking (also called injection spiking) is a phenomenon initially reported in the UK and Ireland where people have reported themselves subjected to surreptitious injection of unidentified sedative drugs, usually in a crowded environment such as the dancefloor of a nightclub, producing symptoms typical of date rape drugs. A Home Affairs Committee report noted a lack of motive in respect of needle spiking. In 692 recorded incidents there was only one claimed further offence of sexual offending or robbery.

No verified toxicological results have been published showing the presence of known incapacitating agents in alleged victims; the prevalence of genuine cases is unknown and has been controversial, with experts expressing doubts as to how easily such injections could be carried out without it being immediately obvious to the victim and attributing the reports to hysteria. Dr Emmanuel Puskarczyk, head of the poison control centre at the Centre hospitalier régional et universitaire de Nancy in France, when noting the absence of objective proof has stated that the administration of a substance would require several seconds meaning that the recipient would likely notice at the time.

Needle spiking has all of the hallmarks of a moral panic.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10225259/Did-nightclub-needle-attacks-actually-never-happen-Criminologist-casts-doubt.html

Claims of needle attacks reached Australia in early December 2021.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/12/drink-drug-spiking-victims-speak-overwhelming-shame-attacks/

https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/potential-victims-of-spiking-urged-to-report-to-police-and-get-tested-quickly-as-nearly-5-000-reports-of-spiking-are-made-within-a-year

See Also

• Nightclub date rape drug use‎

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