AIBU or are teenage girls too afraid to go out at night? Afraid because of drink spiking and being injected.

[Metropolismoon]

Dd is in her first year at Reading Uni. 7 girls have recently been injected at the students union and she has a friend at another uni who had her drink spiked.

She is now afraid to go out at night and she and her friends have kitchen parties instead.

I think it’s really sad that they are having to stay home as it’s considered too unsafe to go out at night.

@Lockheart

Drink spiking is unfortunately all too common.

The "injection spiking" phenomenon which has exploded out of nowhere in the last fortnight is just another rehash of an urban legend as old as the hills.

There is a substantial thread in Feminism Chat with detailed posts about why spiking by injection simply isn't possible.

It is much more likely a fear campaign.

This.

Every single person interviewed, from doctors to chemists have said this is near-impossible.

Not one person have had a positive toxicology report.

Young women who aren’t used to drinking heavily are blacking out and assuming they’ve been spiked.

What kind of U.K.-wide drugging gang are injecting all these women and making no attempts to take them?!

This generation’s illegal dog fighting social media myth.

Spiking via drinks still relatively-common, as is plying young women with drinks. Be afraid of things that exist.