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.

Or just bullshit in general.

Parents never get the full story. It's easier to say you've been spiked rather than admit to foolishness.

If something doesnt make sense then it's usually a lie.

She had no reason to bullshit she didn't even need to tell me she was in the hospital. So if she didn't want me to know she took something then sge just wouldn't have said she was in the hospital or why.

Anything could have happened to her had her friends not been around. Had that happend i guess we would still be saying she wasn't spiked... dont do drugs

Ridiculous comments !!

Different drugs have different effects why would anyone bother to lie.

OP as I said I'd be finding out who owns that nightclub and ask about protocols and duty of care re spiking, CCTV , searches staff training , police as per my screen shot from met police on spikkng, and even that NHS hospital re protocols on suspected spiking.

Kick up a fuss

A drug wouldn’t be out of anyone’s system in 90 minutes. Did the hospital say what drug it could of been for them to say that?

Hope your DD is ok

edited to say, I suppose the drug may of been given earlier in the evening to not show up

With whom? You did read that the DD is a 28yr old woman didn't you?

@JDM625

Do you know anything about spikkng ?
Do you know how regularly it happens and victims at best end up feeling anxious , violated and nervous to go out and at worst , raped and or robbed.

Spiking relies on silence and confusion , was I really spikes etc so of course op and her dd and hopefully her friends who went through that terror will ALl start to make a huge fuss and ask questions and demand answers !!

It affects all of us .

Sounds like a mix of ignorance and perhaps fatigue at the hospital

What's her age got to do with it. This can happen to people of all ages

@ParmaViolletts I was pointing out that the DD is an adult, not a child like many of us assumed till the OP clarified. The OP can certainly encourage the DD to report the incident or as you said 'kick up a fuss', but ultimately its down to the DD to do so.

Despite numerous people asking, the OP still hasn't clarified that she spoke to the hospital medics 1st hand. The whole story is 2nd hand via friends. Several us that have worked in A&E have pointed out that some of the information doesn't make sense. Of course spiking can happen and its a dreadful and scary crime, but its up to DD to report it.

@JDM625

It's on us all to kick up a stink when spiking happens .

Most people have had enough experience with alcohol and maybe drugs by their late twenties to know when something has gone terribly wrong .

We know ourselves.

We also usually know our friends and family and their response to substances well.
So to gas light this into something else troubles me.

I would happily email this establishment myself if op wanted me too.

And if her DD was in my constituency i would also add weight to writing to the MP .

We all need to get angry about the possibility of any of us going out and our DC and being drugged up to the eye balls reacting badly ending up in hospital convulsing because some idiot or nefarious species decided to do this to us .

It's one of the most under reported crimes

People tend to associate "spiking" with drugs, primarily because of raised awareness of GHB, Rohypnol, Ketamine and so on, but in reality many cases of "spiking" are actually just someone adding more alcohol surreptitiously to an already alcoholic drink.

It used to be known as slipping someone a "mickey", but it's now included officially in spiking statistics and regarded exactly the same as adding any other narcotic to a drink.

It also explains why some people end up appearing to be "drugged" but toxicology tests will return nothing but alcohol. When someone who perhaps isn't used to it imbibes a large quantity of alcohol in a short space of time, they don't always just appear "drunk". Blackouts, incoherence, hallucination, loss of motor function and control of body function are all common with expedited alcohol consumption, and many people who have simply never drunk themselves into that state previously mistakenly conclude these symptoms are evidence they must have been slipped some form of "drug".

I'm not suggesting this must be what happened to DD, but does happen nonetheless, and it would also explain why blood tests return nothing out of the ordinary, and why they are pumping her full of fluids. It also wouldn't be the first time someone has been out celebrating a birthday, and a friend has decided to "treat" them to an extra shot or two.

Hallucinating is quite extreme and suggests spiking. This is different to alcohol potentially hitting you harder than you expected. Would you say what town you’re in? There was an issue with the town I live in and spiking. Particularly one place where it seemed to have been happening and I think there were investigations into the staff. They do silly offers like 3 jaegerbombs for a fiver and I’ve seen so many people be carried out of there in all states. They now have a van in the town who look after people from letting them charge their phone to carrrying them out of places fitting and vomiting. It’s a fantastic idea and all towns should have one as the people working at the establishments don’t care.

I have a relative who was spiked - he's a very good looking young man. Fortunately, he got home safely.

But yes - the victims are usually women.

Arcadia Lounge Bar & Club https://g.co/kgs/hChJzys

It was arcadia in bexleyheath.

I’m so very sorry this happened to your daughter. I’m glad she had good friends with her who ensured she was safe and got the right help.
I work in the NHS and where I work drug testing is rarely done in A&E . They do sometimes send bloods for drug testing but these take a long time ( days) to come back. It might be helpful to order a urine drug test online if she wants to see what she was spiked with. It might be negative if she was given something very short acting or if she was given something not routinely tested for - like GHB
She may also want to consider getting some psychological support. When something like this happens the world can suddenly feel like a very unsafe place. My thoughts are with you and your daughter. And god it makes me so angry that a young woman can’t go for a nice night out with friends without some predator ruining it…

Yeah after posting that I remembered the awful Manchester case. Everybody be careful out there!!

@Angrymum22 the same thing happened to my 6'3" DS. He was 25, on holiday in a big city abroad, and got spiked by the barman in the hotel where he was staying. The guy tried to sexually assault him but - thank God - DS was alert enough to get away.

He didn't report it because he was in a foreign country and was due to fly home 2 days later. He moved hotels for the final night. He was quite traumatised by it - understandably.

I'd honestly never thought to warn him about the possibility of date rape drugs being used on him.

Yep this and most parents have no idea their kids are doing drugs.

Spiking very much does happen. It happened to me - was at a work retirement do. Very tame event. I had about 3 beers ( and I’m very well used to alcohol). Felt completely sober and when I left the pub ( in an area I know well) I could not find my way home, was calling my partner and couldn’t speak properly. It was very frightening. He commented on how huge my pupils were when I got home. A female colleague of mine who was with me the same night took over 2 hrs to get home despite living a 10 minute walk from the venue. She was not intoxicated in the pub.
I suspect we both had something slipped in our drinks shortly before leaving.
I was well into my 40’s when this happened and very aware of my limits with alcohol. This was about 3 drinks over the course of 4 hours with food. I have never had a similar reaction with alcohol.
Don’t fool yourself ( or victim blame) by pretending this doesn’t happen. It does. And we all need to be aware and vigilant to it.

I'm not fooling myself it doesn't happen but I'm also not naive. If a young person has adverse effects to drugs or alcohol its easier to say you've been spiked to your parents than admit the truth. And many parents will accept that version of events because they don't want to admit to themselves that their little darlings would ever take drugs.

That's generally not how drugs work, most drugs are traceable for at least 24 hours if not longer, including GHB.

Sorry to hear of your DD experience.

Another thing not mentioned is that alcohol can react with medications. Metronidazole, for example, is commonly used for dental and gynae infections and alcohol shouldn't be drink for at least 2 days after finishing the last dose. People often don't realise that it potentiates (enhances) the effect of the alcohol, so 1 drink feels like 3 or 4.

I'm not saying this is the case in DD's scenario, more a reminder for people to check what meds they have been taking before drinking.

This thread is full of victim blaming. I can't even be arsed to keep explaining.

Im glad you and your friend were ok in the end sounds awful

The OPs daughter isn’t a teen. She is a 28 yr old woman who had no need to make up any excuses to her parents. If she had got very drunk or taken drugs she just wouldn’t have told her mother anything if she chose not to. And alcohol does not tend to cause a rash, breathing difficulties and hallucinations
It’s so demeaning and so invalidating to refer to parents believing “ their little darlings”. This young woman could have been in very real danger and she is having to defend herself to be believed.
And by the way I would also think very poorly of anyone slipping extra shots into the birthday girls drinks unbeknownst to her. It’s still extremely dangerous.
I really hope nothing like this ever happens to you or yours. And if it does that you believe them..