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Drink Spiking (Lacing Alcohol With Drugs) Incidents Are Rarer Than Binge Drinking
Dr. Mark Little, a clinical toxicologist at the Royal Perth Hospital, says that suspected victims of drink spiking are more likely to be suffering from drugs and alcohol they have willingly consumed.
He came to this conclusion after reviewing 100 suspected drink-spiking cases, and finding that sedatives or illicit drugs were not involved in any of them.
The researcher instead says that there emerged a concerning picture of excess alcohol and illegal drug use by people, usually young women, at the centre of these drink-spiking claims.
"The public's perception that it's a guy putting a sedative drug into a woman's drink, at a pub or a club, we just didn't find that at all," News.com.au quoted him as saying.
"As a community, we have a bigger problem with illicit drug use and alcohol binge drinking than we do with drink spiking," he added.
The study included 101 people who were taken to two Perth hospitals as suspected victims of drink spiking over 19 months. Almost 90 per cent were the subjects were females, and a majority of them were aged 25 or younger.
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