My family and I went to Kennedys to celebrate the new year. My cousin witnessed a man spike one of our drinks we had at our table. This man was also trying to talk to us throughout the night and made comments that made us feel uncomfortable. For example, he randomly came up to me and said “looks like I’m spending my new year with you then, doesn’t it?” But in a sinister, chilling way. There was two of them. One, who was within the dance floor area (where we were having a dance) and leaving weird comments. And his friend who continued to linger around our table. My cousin reported this to a FEMALE door member who took my cousin outside to the other (male) door staff. After a few minutes, we noticed my cousin hadn’t returned, so went to see where she was. The door staff then told us they had banned her from the bar. They had shown pictures they took of her on WhatsApp and threatened to send these to other bars so she couldn’t get access anywhere else if we caused any confrontation. I tried to talk to the bouncers, I didn’t raise my voice or try to cause an argument, I just wanted to understand why they had done what they had done. They had no reason, he said “I don’t need to give you a reason, like I said, I will send pictures of your cousin to all the other bouncers in york so they refuse to let you in”. Let me put that bluntly- WE WERE KICKED OUT BECAUSE WE REPORTED THAT SOMEONE HAD SPIKED OUR DRINK. We went elsewhere to spend the rest of our night but my cousin was in tears, she felt so unsafe.

I don't remember anything but from what I've been told there was a guy that was following me and trying to dance with me all night, he was buying me drinks and I started to act like I was really drunk, he was asking me to take me home for 20 mins and then bring me back, I then was becoming more and more unsteady on my feet, my friends had to hold me up, then they said I started to struggle to get my words out so they look me to sit down, then I became even worse and more worrying so they alerted the bouncers, they then contacted my sister to come and collect me and ended up having to put me in a wheelchair to take me into my sisters car so I could go home. It took 3 people to get me out the car and up stairs and when I woke up in the morning I had absolutely no idea what had happened. I then had the worst hangover ever, I was freezing cold, shaking, headache, body aches and nauseous all the next day, it took me over 24hrs to feel well enough to even be able to take a shower.

Man stood in close proximity to myself for a good 10 minutes without moving. All of a sudden I seen him throw something at me and it went into my drink and was clearly a pill. I confronted the guy and he laughed and walked off. 3 members of staff and security were told on the night and nothing was done we had to leave because of this. This was reported to the manager over instagram the following day and I gave very detailed timelines and descriptions of who I spoke to and where I was. Staff denied this was reported and doorman lied and said the individual left the building. This isn't true as we saw the person head in the smoking area. As we left the doorman was just stood outside the front. I was told by manager that they would review the CCTV and get back to me. Over a week later I was chasing up as I was being ignored. I then started leaving reviews and then they replied to say no CCTV footage to show this happened and doorman told them the bloke had left which was not true.

Male went from being a typical jolly drunk to almost unconscious and paralysed from waist down during a brief car ride home. He ended up in A&E being treated for hypothermia and dehydration. He would have collapsed if walking home and most likely would have passed away from choking and/or hypothermia.

I had only 3 drinks all night. The bar was extremely crowded. After my third drink, I began to be very confused, time was warped etc. I woke up with big memory black outs and 2 of my friends have also suspected that they were spiked.

Went out for NYE and after an hour I suddenly couldn't stand or see. Immediately felt dizzy, sick, and disorientated. Was luckily taken home by my partner but couldn't move for an hour.

I’m not really sure what happened but one minute I was fine and the next I couldn’t see, my eyes were rolling to the back of my head and I couldn’t walk or talk.

I was at the bar with my friends and this boy kept pestering me to buy me a drink. I knew the guy who was behind the bar ( my friends link at the time ) and he was already providing us with free drinks. I told the boy “ I’m good thanks “ he didn’t stop there. He continued to pester me until my drink I originally had spilled and then he said “ ahhh see I’ve dropped your drink let me buy you one “ again, I said “ I’m good thanks “ he would not leave me alone. I kept ignoring him. Moments later he literally came back over and left the cup by me telling me he brought me a drink. Thinking about it now, the cup was literally overflowing with alcohol and the venue we were at didn’t serve drinks to the top of the cup. My friends and I started to converse and I gave in ( I know right, so silly) I had a sip and was like woah… this is way too strong for me! So my friend tried ( who also felt the affect ) and said the same thing! We didn’t even finish the drink as it was too strong. I literally remember my self walking towards the bathroom.. I fell into the sink and just felt my body fly… I was being lifted out of the venue as I was unresponsive, I couldn’t sit up or communicate with my friends or the people who were trying to help me.

I was at a works Christmas party and other companies were there at the hotel bar and room provided. I had had half a bottle of wine which normally I can handle and was having a great time and then out of no where I am unable to stand, I fell over and needed people to pick me up, I was vomiting and couldn’t lift my head off the toilet. I also can’t remember anything that happened and all of this was told by a friend who was with me at the time. I put my drink down on the bar when I was talking to friends and I assume this is when it happened. The next day I was so confused, dizzy and sick.

I felt a pinch to the back of my left forearm. I then proceeded to get incredibly drunk. Unable to walk without assistance from my boyfriend and I was taken home. I have then looked the following Sunday 27th and I have a circle shaped bruise with what looks like an injection mark.

I was fine when I went in, had quarter of a cocktail that I had been holding all the time, then felt really drunk and was sick loads

I was at Bodega bar with two of my friends drinking and just talking, when one of my friends said she was feeling really dizzy and not good so we took her to the bathroom and she said she doesn’t think it was the alcohol since she had one or two drinks that night. We asked if it she took any meds that could be affecting the alcohol and she said no, so we came to the conclusion she was spiked. We took her to the ER just to make sure it wasn’t alcohol poisoning and they confirmed she was roofied. We aren’t sure how it happened and thought we’d been careful but I guess we weren’t :(

From approximately midnight, I have no recollection of the following 3 hours. I have a puncture wound / bruise. I felt feverish, confused and dizzy the next day

I went out for food with my boyfriend, my best friend and her boyfriend, we went for a drink afterwards, I had four drinks, I can’t remember anything past my first. I spent two hours vomiting, I was hallucinating and speaking gibberish. My boyfriend managed to get me home safe. I don’t know the exact venue I was spiked at, but the venue I started to vomit and hallucinate in did not help me.

Boy would not leave me alone and kept trying to take me to his friends, followed me into the bathroom (which was empty) with his friend and cornered me, it was only when my friend followed in 10 seconds after that they left. Apparently got bought multiple drinks by them however I only remember the first one and I’d not had a lot to drink beforehand. Also refused to let me go and kept trying to pull me back as my friend tried to get me to leave.

I was spiked at Leeds festival unsure how I had a bottle of water with me though and think something could’ve put into it. I was so unwell I was dizzy, throwing up, my vision was blurred. I spent 3 hours in the leeds festival medical tent unconscious and then had a 4 minute long seizure and had to have an ambulance called. I’m not from Leeds so when I woke up in the hospital I was so petrified it was awful. I haven’t been out since I go to work and college and then go home.

I was in a state where I was passing out, I could not walk, I could barely walk even with assistance, however I was unaware at the time I had been spiked, and most assumed I had drunk too much, however I only had one shot of vodka. The following day I felt awfully ill, my whole body was aching, especially my right arm I could not lift it above my head which is when i noticed the needle mark and slight bruising around the area. I was approached by multiple older men in the club who were persistent even after my constant middle fingers, and no’s. I have no idea who it may have been.

A man handed me the drink i ordered and spiked it. I blacked out (I did not drink nearly enough to black out) within 30 minutes. According to my friends i could not walk or talk by myself and ended up being told by security i was too drunk and should go home. They then told me to leave and didn't let me wait for my friends or an uber. I’m 5’1 100lbs and was totally alone. It was confirmed i was roofied

My mate was playing a show here last night so myself and my other mate went along. Prior to entering the venue I had 3 drinks and 1 once inside the venue, after this things started to get blurry and I don’t fully remember what happened, I remember going for a cig with my mate, going to the bar to get 1 more drink, watching one song of the main support who went on at 9:10pm and after that I remember nothing. The venue and security did an awful job at dealing with this situation, they told my mate that “if she dies there’s nothing we can do as there’s no female staff members on”, which is so out of line. I believe the venue called an ambulance which took 2 hours to arrive apparently, and this is the first thing I really remember which was speaking to the ambulance crew, which must have been after the gig had finished around 11pm but I’m not sure. I know for a fact I can drink a lot more than this and be fine, and based off being spiked in the past and how much body reacted I was definitely spiked. I threw up loads and got really hot, apparently I passed out for a while and was paralytic but I don’t remember that. Super grateful for my mate who stayed with me the whole time, if it wasn’t for her who knows what would’ve happened.

I had 2 drinks, I had half of the second one and that was it, I was gone. I don't remember anything at all, other than being really hot, until I woke up at 7am with someone 20 minutes away from my house. I just got up and left this house straight away. I know I left the club at 1:30am but have no memory of this time in between, other than a Snapchat image where my pupils were hugely dilated. I didn't realise I had been spiked until the next day when I saw the picture of me and I thought it was too late. So many people are spiked there but they shut it down all the time. I know of many incidents of spiking here.

I had three cans of beer which I drunk over a period of a few hours before heading to Venue. The only alcoholic drink I had in the club was a double JD and coke which I watched be poured and handed to me, later in the evening I had a glass of water. About ten minutes after drinking the glass of water I went to the toilet where my vision became completely blurred and then my legs gave way and I couldn't stand. I was escorted outside by a bouncer for being "too drunk", I have no recollection of anything after this. I was lucky a friend found me outside and took me home to look after me. I woke up the next day with chest pains, nausea and feeling very confused.

I don’t remember getting home. I woke up the next morning with cuts and bruises over my arms, vomit all over the bathroom and defecated underwear. This was not a drunken accident, no drugs were taken. Spikings in the lgbtq+ area in Belfast have become very common recently. Bar security saw me in a mess and kicked me out, all my belongings were still inside the bar. I was left alone, thankfully my friend was there and got me my things and helped me home. My friend then asked for them to check cctv and it was never done.

It was a freshers week club night at Kuda (now called Vinyl). There were lots of free alco-pops laid out as part of a new student welcome event that loads of club promoter-types seemed to be involved in organising. I was 18 when this happened, and a guy who I had assumed at the time was part of their group handed me a blue alco-pop, open, to play some sort of drinking game that involved lining up freshers in two different lines and getting us to drink the alco-pops one by one. The first line to finish would win. I backed out of this game because I cannot drink liquid quickly, alcoholic or not. I stood by the side and cheered on some of the other students playing, and drank my alco-pop, and that is the last thing I remember before coming to in a house I had never been to before, halfway across the city. I had lots of bruises on my knees. Later, when I sought to find out details of the night, a couple of other freshers who I confided some of this in said I had fallen a lot as we progressed from the club to some further bars and pubs, none of which I remember. They also said I had looked unwell and been taken outside a venue, where I was sick, but then I was brought back inside where I seemed 'kind of out of it but no longer nauseous'. As we had all just met that week, none of us were close yet and so they did not know exactly when I left. However, one other woman who was there that night said she too was confident she had been spiked, because she wound up confused in a supermarket car park without knowing how she got there.

Had only had half a can of drink and felt a prick in my back whilst in the club. Felt nothing of it until I felt absolutely drunk and my friend who could tell something was wrong asked me if I had been spiked or not. Went into the bathroom and saw a needle mark on my back and immediately knew.

I felt unwell, went to the toilets and realised very quickly that I was losing control of my movements. I called my husband to pick me up . Within 15 minutes of feeling funny I was unable to walk unaided and behaving erratically. Police helped my friend and husband get me off the streets and safe.