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Examples include:
- Drink spiking - adding drugs or alcohol to someone else's drink.
- Needle spiking - injecting drugs into someone else's body with a needle or auto-injector pen.
- Vape or cigarette spiking - giving someone drugs in a cigarette or e-cigarette.
- Food spiking - adding drugs to someone's food.
Giving someone more alcohol or drugs than they were expecting and had consented to is also spiking. For example, giving someone double shots instead of single ones.
It is sensible not to accept a drink from a stranger or leave your drink unattended. But sometimes people get spiked by people they know and trust too.
Most cases of spiking don’t result in sexual assault or theft. But spiking can cause severe distress, emotional harm, and anxiety. It can take a long time to recover from someone spiking you.
Spiking can put you at greater risk of injury, theft, or assault. It is also dangerous to drive when someone has spiked you.