Needle spiking
Needle spiking (also called injection spiking) is a moral panic initially reported in the UK and Ireland where people have claimed to have been surreptitiously injected with unidentified sedative drugs, usually in a crowded environment such as the dance floor of a nightclub. In the UK 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. Experts have expressed doubts as to how easily such injections could be carried out without it being immediately obvious to the victim and attribute 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.
Claims of needle attacks reached Australia in early December 2021.[1]
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