Act of secretly injecting people with sedative drugs
Not to be confused with Drink 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. [1]
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.[2][3][4][5][6] Dr Emmanuel Puskarczyk, head of the poison control centre at the Centre hospitalier régional et universitaire de Nancy [fr], 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.[7]
^Author: Home Affairs Committee, Related inquiry: Spiking, Date Published: 26 April 2022
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^Brown L, Rahman-Jones I. Injection spiking: How likely is it? BBC News, 22 October 2021
^Specia M, Kwai I. ‘Needle Spiking’ of Women in Britain Stirs Alarm Over New Kind of Assault. The New York Times, 25 October 2021
^Gallagher C. Gardaí investigate claim woman ‘spiked’ in nightclub with needle. The Irish Times, 27 October 2021
^Francis E. Reports of ‘needle spiking’ in Britain drive young women, students to boycott bars. The Washington Post, 29 October 2021
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