Warning to women and men - both victims and potential perpetrators.

TheHillOfDoom wrote: »

What can I do? Hi Mr. Policeman. I think I was drugged. Ye were in yer hole, go home ta fcuk.

Hi mr.policeman, I think I was drugged. The doctor I saw that night also confirms this. Here are the results of the tests he carried out on me to prove it. Unless the doctor just took your temperature and verbally confirmed it was drugs?

TheHillOfDoom wrote: »

Yes, and I had a fairly significant argument/discussion with him over the fact that I knew that I was drugged. NHS will not test for drugs unless for forensics. He told me this later i.e. on discharge today (so he had done his research).

If you feel unwell, someone you trust should take you to your nearest accident and emergency (A&E) department. Tell the medical staff that you think your drink has been spiked. Arrange for a trusted friend or relative to take you home and stay with you until the drugs have fully left your system.
Report it to the police as soon as you can. They will need to take blood and urine samples.

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/abuse/Pages/drink-spiking.aspx

He hasn't researched very well it would appear

PARlance wrote: »

How do you know there is no evidence? There could be CCTV in the pub, you have a timeline.

It's nonsense not reporting it. I would go as far as saying it's extremely selfish and foolish not to report it.

I whole heartedly agree. What if reporting it saves one person from being spiked? Of course it may not but if there's a slight chance then I think it's morally right to report. Sorry you had to go through that shít OP. I've seen it happen and it frightened the life out of me.. I'm happy your both okay

TheHillOfDoom wrote: »

Perhaps he has experience of reality.

Maybe he didn't have the heart to tell you it was the drink!

Maybe it was heroin, it was that addictive, you let a strange man take your husband home, so you could finish your drink!


or crack cocaine :eek:


yes, the consultant agreed. He took your temperature and just knew!

btw you have 24-72 hours to get the blood and urine test done, most things still show up in that time.

TheHillOfDoom wrote: »

Maybe you missed the point.

You still have time to go and get the test done. Don't you want to know what it was it case it has long lasting effects? or effects show up later? or you start having spasms next week or..?

TheHillOfDoom wrote: »

I've already had this talk with the doctor.

TBH he doesn't sound like the best doctor. Go to a different one that takes you seriously.

I'd be so annoyed if I was unwell and all the doctor did was take my temperature and nod the yes I'd been drugged.

I would never accuse a random stranger I have never met on the Internet of exaggerating or making up a terrifying story - where a random event nearly left them dead and the authorities were uninterested. Of course I utterly believe that:

- A pub in 2016 in London doesn't have any form of internal CCTV
- A medical professional presented with a patient reporting a high temp and loss of consciousness through a reported adverse reaction to unknown drugs wouldn't run a basic tox screening. After all they wouldn't be interested in knowing if the medication they are using to treat the symptoms might interact with whatever may be floating around in the patient. And they have no interest in knowing if whatever the patient may have taken could have long term ill effects
- That hospitals don't test for drugs, only forensics do that. I assume they want a forensics lab to test the blood of an unconscious or overdosed junkie before they begin treatment as well?
- That a person who had undergone such an ordeal and was keen to make whoever did this suffer is unwilling to have blood / alcohol or hair samples taken in a local police station to find out what they were drugged with, allowing for an attempted murder investigation and for them to be treated for any long term effects

I do hope you get over this terrible ordeal OP

Wibbs wrote: »

+1. I call utter BS. Total walter mitty stuff. If anything happened it was too much drink, passed out pissed in the street. End.

I sniggered at the getting up on a surfboard after "40 pints". Unless you weigh 30 stones and have a liver of a sperm whale you ain't chugging 40 pints and doing anything. BS

And yes the NHS DO test for drugs. They take that crap seriously, as do doctors in casualty depts here. When the last Irish report on "spiking drinks" was done up they found no drugs of that nature in any of the samples taken. None. It was all alcohol, with some pot, MDMA, Coke and the odd smack head.

IMH, does this happen? Yes, but extremely rarely and the y'know evidence backs this up. In 99 times outa 100 when drinks are allegedly "spiked" it's someone drinking too much, avoiding responsibility for it and getting hysterical and blaming the boogieman.

Plus if all this was true and you were drugged and you decided not to talke this further to protect others? Yep self centred and smacks of a little attention seeking.

40 pints and the surfboard is a Christy Moore song called Delirium Tremens, aside from that though, this story is total bollocks. The person in question gig wasted drunk and passed out.

Own your own actions.

Bad times, OP. Hope you and your OH are OK now.

I am quite prepared to believe that drinks are sometimes spiked, usually with spirits (especially if the person is already drinking spirits). Spiking (with alcohol or other drugs) is usually done with a motive - robbery, assault, etc. This apparently was not the case with either you or your OH.

Is it possible that you imbibed too much alcohol too fast by accident (e.g. picking up the wrong glass) or design (e.g. drinks before/with/after a meal) then having a good few pints afterwards? Different beers etc. can have higher alcohol content. Being tired or hungry will also contribute to level of intoxication. It is often easier to dance drunk than to try to walk outside in the cold air.

Thanks for the warning though. I always try to not leave my drink unattended. If it's still there when I get back from the jacks, I'm happy. If not, I just hope whoever nicked it can handle it.

Having said all that, there are a few evil cnuts who will say "Here's two fresh pints of whatever, we have to go. Enjoy." They do go, and snigger to themselves later about how wrecked you must be.