Dd got spiked

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Dd went to a club last night for her birthday. There were 8 of them. She had arranged to hire a booth for them. Where the price includes cocktails and few other drinks. They were all sharing drinks between the 8 of them.

No one got ill like dd did. It was stuff like paranoia seeing stuff breathless rashes. She didn't know who anyone was she thought she was being attacked etc. The hospital said since everyone else is fine it was probably a brush by? Apprently someone injected her as they brush passed you.

Couple things im wondering. Why does that happen. What's the person spiking her get from it? Surely they are loosing out on money.

Also its odd that it was the birthday person who was injected why her out of 8. Is there something in that or is it just a coincidence?

Dd is ol she's been in the hospital since silly o'clock. Where they done blood test. Keep eye on her . They are giving fluids to flush it out of her system she will be able to leave soon.

some drugs like fentanyl need miniscule non visible amounts to destabilize a person, literally trace on the bathroom toilet paper holder or sink edge.
personally i do believe that people who randomly try spiking others do so to scoop them up and take them somewhere secluded (in this case not knowing she was with a group of friends).
the friends don't sound too clued up regarding calling for help quickly if this is not your dd's usual behavior.

Im sorry that happend to you. I dont understand it but it does seem to be random. And since we hear about it , it seems its not that uncommon

They did call for help

nothing in the blood results yet symptoms were happening, that part doesn’t make sense

and giving a different theory - op can dismiss it completely.

It's incredibly common for there to be zero evidence. A&E does not check as standard despite what's suggested above (every test costs money).

Sounds like LSD, which can easily be put into a drink. Hope she's OK. It's awful that nowhere seems safe, and these attacks seems impossible to curtail.

I had my drink spiked once. One minute I was fine and chatting away and then suddenly I could barely stand. I think it was done by an acquaintance (man) that I had been chatting to. I don't think he realised that I was actually out with DH and took his chance. I returned from chatting to this guy to DH in an absolute state he had to carry me out of the place.

This was my first thought tbh.

OP- You still haven't said whether you were in the hospital hearing 1st from the medical team, or this was 2nd hand info from the friends?

Friend in her forties went to a big party of someone her husband knew. She's teetotal, only drinks coca cola socially. They didn't know many people there so agreed to show their faces and leave early. She started to feel very odd, her husband noticed and thought someone had put alcohol in her drink. Well she had the craziest night, hallucinations the lot.

Her 18 year old daughter home from college knew she'd been spiked with god knows what. This was decades ago now.

There was a pub in town very popular where quite a few women were caught out with spiked drinks. It happened while the women were on the dancefloor. They never caught anyone.

Someone didn't do this to watch. People do this hoping the individual will be separated from their friends and then they'll make their move

Seems it's always the women they target.

That's not what the police said in my friend's situation. They said it's quite common for someone to do it to watch and laugh at the outcome.

Oh that's even weirder!

My daughter’s friend experienced this. It was absolutely terrifying. She literally could not move and was very very ill. Really so frightening. If I was a woman these days going clubbing I just wouldn’t. It happens even in pubs though.

When DS was spiked he sustain Ned a really nasty cut to his hand ( put it through the glass in our front door). School contacted me a few days later, he’d explained the injury to his form tutor, and they advised reporting it to the police. I thought it odd that school had got involved but after reporting it online a police officer contacted me and we had a long chat. I suspect that school had had a cluster of 6th formers who’d been spiked or the police had asked that schools reported any suspicious incidents. DS didn’t make a statement because he couldn’t remember anything about the night but the police officer explained that there had been an exponential rise in spiking in the city. I knew this because my BIL was still working in intelligence at the time.
The PO explained that there are generally three reasons spiking takes place

1. sexual assault
2. theft
3. for kicks

The for kicks is about drugging someone, often someone they know, for a laugh or vindictively.

DS has been left with a horrible scar on his hand, he was lucky not to suffer permanent damage, when I looked at it initially I could see the tendons and my first reaction was to check he could still grip with all his fingers.

The whole episode rattled him since he ended up separated from his friends when the nightclub they were going into wouldn’t let him in. One of the lads in his year tried to sort him out with a taxi but he ran away ( common behaviour with spiking drugs)but he thinks someone eventually sorted him outwith a taxi home.

He had attempted to text a few people but his texts were incoherent and they thought he was messing about. It was a learning curve for all of them. If a 6’3” rugby player could be targets anyone can.

I did tentatively explored sexual assault with him since at one point he told me not to go outside because there was a man lurking outside. Also when we went to A&E had to stay outside because Covid rules were still in place, so he rang his mate to ask him to ring me to make sure I was ok. He was very confused. He didn’t think that he’d been assaulted though.

What was noticeable was that he recovered rapidly and after a couple of hours in A&E he strolled out, perfectly sober. We had virtually had to carry him into the car when he arrived home. I’ve never seen anyone sober up that quickly. It was also easy to see from his card that he had had at the most 3 drinks. He can easily drink 10pints and hold a normal conversation. I’m not proud of that ability but being tall and broad means that he can handle alcohol, it may be genetic since both DH and I could handle alcohol in our youth.

Just to add, has your daughter been advised to have tests for HepB. Hep C and HIV?

Spiking by injection is incredibly unlikely. They can’t just poke you with a needle and move away - they would need a good few seconds to inject whatever substance it was into a person. A simple needle prick would have no impact whatsoever.

Think about when you have your flu jab or any other vaccine - it’s a sharp scratch as the needle goes in, and then, having reached the nurse needs a few seconds to pump the syringe before removing the needle from your arm.

There were lots of claims of this happening around freshers week time a few years ago, and I’m fairly sure the ultimate conclusion was that it was social contagion - girls either being spiked the traditional way, having something put in their drink, or just drinking behind their limit for the first time, hearing about alleged injection spiking cases on the news and presuming that had happened to them too. There was no medical evidence any of them had actually been injected with anything.

Most spiking accusations are where people have drunk too much or taken something and are embarrassed.

There were lots of claims of this happening around freshers week time a few years ago, and I’m fairly sure the ultimate conclusion was that it was social contagion - girls either being spiked the traditional way, having something put in their drink, or just drinking behind their limit for the first time, hearing about alleged injection spiking cases on the news and presuming that had happened to them too. There was no medical evidence any of them had actually been injected with anything

It happened in Edinburgh around 4-5 years ago. A few weeks of SM being rife with women and girls claiming they had been needle spiked. Police Scotland spent countless man-hours investigating every single case brought to their attention, and found not a single shred of evidence of anyone having actually been assaulted with a needle.

This is complete bullshit on the hospital’s part.

Please everyone always call police 999 if it's happening right there and then , don't be passive about this .
Then tell MP ,complain to club ,bar and ask what measures they take to protect customers ? Staff training ?

Council , report to the charities see that they can do .

Don't be silent this is how they keep getting away with it...silence !

Spiking is an offence under different laws but particularly the offence against the person act

As someone who works in healthcare, it’s unlikely she was spiked and more likely she was too drunk/ bad reaction to drink/ has taken drugs and won’t admit it. You may think she’s not “that type” but I’m sure my parents swore I also wasn’t “that type” and I tried some things they weren’t aware of.

As someone who works in health care surely some people have had their drinks spiked and some people realky are mot that type of person to take drugs .

So to the several people on this this thread you never had your drink spiked. That never happend You took drugs or were extremely drunk because a few people on this thread have decided that's the case.